1/7/2014 Why Is Radioactive Snow Falling In Missouri?

Source: The Truth
Date:  January 7th, 2014
by: Michael Snyder

If radioactive snow is falling in Missouri, is it safe to assume that much of the snow that is falling on the rest of the country is also radioactive?  What you are about to see is absolutely shocking.  A highly respected YouTube personality known as DutchSinse has released video of himself measuring radiation levels of the snow falling on St. Louis, Missouri.  What he discovered was that he got a reading that was about twice as high as he did on a sunny day when there is no precipitation.  So what in the world could be causing this?  Could Fukushima be to blame?  Is radioactive water originally from Fukushima being picked up in the Pacific and dumped all across the country?  If so, there would seem to be no way to stop this from happening.  Now that highly radioactive water from Fukushima is spreading throughout the entire Pacific Ocean, it is simply impossible to put the “genie back in the bottle” again.  So could this mean that we might have to deal with radioactive rain and snow storms in North America for many years to come?
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Read full article here.

Editor's Note: POTR Blog who run both an outdoor and indoor Geiger counter from their location in St. Louis, Missouri have also reported on the issue of the radioactive snow.

6/15/2012 Radiation Network Alerts Show They are POSITIVE South Bend, IN was a FALSE Detection

Source: RadiationNetwork Alerts
Date: 6/15/2012

I was checking the Radiation Network crowd-sourced national Geiger counter readings map and noticed that they had an update for the extraordinarily high South Bend, Indiana reading from 6/6/2012.  This did raise the alarm bell in the blogosphere.  Apparently the same Geiger counter station has now been confirmed to be hooked up to both Radiation Network and Black Cat Systems.  Therefore there was no second station in the area confirming the high reading as some speculated (it was the same station).  Below is the Radiation Network alert which I have cut and pasted with the details:

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Postscript: 6/16/12, 10:50 A.M: - Radiation Alert from Indiana
You may notice that the South Bend, Indiana station that triggered the high Alert on June 6th is back online.  He plans to operate his station only while he is there to attend it, and has taken interim steps to improve the integrity of his system until he can build a dedicated setup just for the purpose of this radiation monitoring.  A few new facts:

	There was no lightning storm at his location that evening.
	Confirmed that his monitoring station was feeding both the RadiationNetwork and the Black Cat Systems network simultaneously, using Virtual Serial Port Emulation software, which means there was no corroborating reading at the identical location from a different system, because the Black Cat reading was from the same Geiger counter.  As stated before, the Black Cat system uses a different unit of radiation measurement, and there is also a lag time built into their reporting.
	Even though the RadiationNetwork had disabled his connection, the operator's station continued to run locally, and he found after awakening that the Geiger counter itself was showing normal readings as indicated by the occasional frequency of its blinking red light!  It was the computer and software only that were registering high radiation levels.
	The Geiger counter was being supplied by A/C, not battery power, and it is the station operator's strong opinion that had the counter been running on a battery during the time of the incident, the alert would never have occurred.

I myself have limited knowledge in electronics, but this station operator is very experienced, and putting all of the above facts together, along with the makeup of his system, which involved a series of UPS backups in combination with GFCI outlet and serial connections, his best judgment is that a ground loop had developed and triggered the high radiation levels showing on the softwares that fed the radiation networks - a fluke in his particular hardware combination.
In conclusion, the station operator has worked diligently in troubleshooting the problem, and has taken interim and permanent steps to build strong integrity into his monitoring system.  He has been fully cooperative and responsive since the alert, and he has my full support.  He wishes to reiterate his deep apology for the concern his false alert caused.
For our part, we at the Radiation Network need a faster reacting system to end false alerts sooner, but only after we have reasonably determined that the alert is in fact false.  The genuine alerts stay - in keeping with our function as an early warning system.
One final note: Some media reports of this incident seemingly confused these two:

	Radiation Network - that's us, a privately owned and operated, citizen-based monitoring system, versus...
	RadNet, a Federal Government radiation monitoring system operated by the EPA.

Big difference in many ways.  You might review my assessment of "Radiation Monitoring by Government vs. Private Citizen", the 3/29/11 Update from the Archive2 page linked above.

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For the older reports of the South Bend, Indiana reading see:

1. 6/7/2012 The 7000 CPM reading from South Bend, Indiana was a FALSE alert, RadiationNews
2. 6/7/2012 High Geiger counter readings from South Bend, Indiana 7000CPM highest, RadiationNews

Update: Tim Flanegan (tim@radiationnetwork.com) who runs Radiation Network was on the Jeff Rense radio show today to give his opinion on the South Bend, IN reading. He said he was 99% sure this was a false reading and that he did not have any comment one way or another on the military activity or loud boom noises heard near the Michigan border. Also of note is that high rainwater readings are often attributed to Radon washout. If the high reading goes away after a few hours or days it is probably Radon washout. If the high reading stays it is time to send the water sample to a lab for radionuclide isotope testing.

6/7/2012 High Geiger counter readings from South Bend, Indiana 7000CPM highest

Source(s): ichicax4, dutchsince
Date: 6/7/2012 about midnight or 1 AM CST

Concerned citizen ichicax4 made a call to the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) based on an astonishingly high reading from the South Bend, Indiana Geiger counter from radiationnetwork.com, which collects and reports radiation readings from individuals who own Geiger counters and choose to share their readings over the Internet.  Quoting the monitoring network itself from the Alerts section:

Update: 6/6/12, 11:55 P.M. - Very high reading in South Bend, IN station this evening.   Reason unknown.  Station unresponsive to contact at this late hour.  Since this same station has triggered the Alert system before, which Alerts may have been false, and because his current readings do not appear to be corroborated by nearby stations, we have disabled his station for the time being.  Will report back when we know more.

Here is the video from ichicax4 with screen grabs of radiationnetwork.com and a record of her call to the NRC. This took place at approximately 1AM per the video and readings as high as 7000CPM were observed from South Bend, Indiana monitoring station:

Video Description

At time of upload station is reading 7,000 cpm again 1:10 am.

@2:00 am numbers dropped to normal and then went up to 300's...Black Cat is reading hign too in tandem...if this IS a plume this is not from Fuku, it would have set off other detectors west of there from the wind direction in the days prior. This is either a malfunction, or this is a local plant or local event. My next guess would be check military installations in area for activity as well. It should start setting off detectors south/southeast in the next few hours, if its real. I will be calling the NRC back in the a.m. There are several other nuke plants N/NW/W that need to be checked too if it continues.

Anyone local with a geiger please post readings.

Radiation Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/index.htm

Black Cat: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

How close do you live to a nuke plant?http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/

GOES SAT:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/index.php?satellite=east&channel=wv&...

Intellicast: http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?animate=true

NRC Event Notification page:
http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/allegations/safety-concern.html

4/11/2012 Massive 8.6 then 8.2 magnitude quakes occur close together near Indonesia

Source(s): Wall Street Journal (First Video), USGS, Dutchsinse
Date: 2012-04-11 03:38:37 AM CST (M8.6) and 2012-04-11 05:43:09 AM CST (M8.2)

Two massive quakes have occured in the Indian Ocean near indonesia:  a M8.6 and M8.2 very close together. The details are below.

2/9/2012 Dutchsinse tests levels at Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Illinois

Source: Dutchsinse

2/9/2012 — Chicago Radiation Tests — Byron Illinois Nuclear power plant and Downtown

Posted on February 9, 2012

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Many thanks to international medcom for the 2nd Inspector Alert geiger counter. Here is a link to their site (they are the manufacturer of the Inspector Alert geiger ) http://medcom.com/

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Here is a compilation list  of radiation measurement videos made in Chicago — I still have another few videos to process — but these videos below represent a bulk of the measurements taken.
Each measurement was done for 10 minutes — using three geiger counters.  Two inspector alert geiger counters — and one CDV-700 (civil defense) geiger counter w/ wand.
This mean each 10 minute video counts for THREE actual counts (there are two separate digital meters running simultaneously, and one analog).
First video of arrival at destination (our room generously donated by a viewer):

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Read full article here
Map of Byron Nuclear Generating Station:
View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map

8/20/2011 Fukushima radioactive seawater plume spreading across entire Pacific Ocean

Source: dutchsinse
Date: 8/20/2011

Plume dispersion map shown in video: http://www.xydo.com/toolbar/27327691-asr_ltd_-_fukushima_radioactive_seawater_plume_dispersal_simulation

6/24/2011 | Dutchsinse (YouTube activist) drives to Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station to measure the environmental radiation personally

Source: Dutchsinse YouTube channel
Date: 6/24/2011

To investigate for himself if rumors of a meltdown at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station are true or not, Dutchsinse has traveled to within several blocks of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant and taken direct independent measurements with his own Geiger counter of the environment.  The verdict is...

The drive in to nuclear power plant:


Reading #1 North tip of nuclear plant 48.4 CPM:


Reading #2 South edge of nuclear plant 61.4 CPM:


Reading #3 East edge of nuclear plant 48.6 CPM:


No meltdown! Environmental levels normal.

However, both Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station and Cooper Nuclear Station (in addition to Missouri river water levels)  should be watched closely, in the event of an unexpected (or series of unexpected) levee or dam breaks.