Buy a Geiger Counter to check for radiation
77Geiger Counters detect radiation
With so many people in the world worried about the dangers from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami there, the only way of really finding out how much radiation there is is with a Geiger counter. Amongst the conflicting and confusing reports in the media, both mainstream and alternative, about the actual and ongoing situation, if you really want to be sure about radiation levels then having your own instrument would be the answer.
These instruments are admittedly very expensive but for those that have the money and want to be sure about how safe the levels of radiation are then a Geiger counter will be what is needed. GeigerCounters.com, a leading supplier of the instruments, is actually reporting on their website that they have sold out but shopping online at eBay and Amazon could provide the answer.
Geiger counters detect and measure the amount of alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays that are present. Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford first developed what would later be known as the Geiger counter back in 1908.
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How does a Geiger Counter work?
If like me you know very little about how a device such as Geiger counter works now is the time to find out.
Geiger counters are employed as a means of detecting any ionizing radiation that is present in a given environment, and this is usually beta particles and gamma rays. However, certain Geiger counter models are able to detect alpha particles as well.
The device works by having an inert gas-filled tube (usually of helium, neon or argon gases with halogens that have been added) that conducts electricity for a very short time when a particle or photon of actual radiation allows the gas to be a conductor. The tube then amplifies this with the aid of a cascade effect and gives out a current pulse. The result is then usually displayed by means of a needle or lamp and/or audible clicks.
Modern Geiger counters are able to detect radiation levels that are present over several orders of magnitude. The Geiger counter most commonly used today is actually known as a "halogen counter" and was invented by Sidney H. Liebson back in 1947.
There are various types of radiation detecting devices currently available and another of these is the Geiger-Müller Tube, which also utilises gas and is a "gas detector."
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Geiger counters for personal use
I recently watched a video presentation by controversial journalist and author Benjamin Fulford in which he states that the world is suffering from "psychological radiation" and that the situation is nowhere near as dangerous as is being made out. Benjamin was reporting from Tokyo in Japan, and pointed out in support of his claims, that he had checked with his own personal Geiger counter and had found the radiation levels there to be within a normal range.
With other reports I have seen about the jet-stream having blown radioactive clouds all across North America, Canada, Russia, Europe and much of North Africa as well as other parts of the world, including the Canary Islands where I live, it would have been of some comfort to me to have had a Geiger counter of my own so I could have conducted my own measurements. If I had found them within the normal range then I would have known for sure there was nothing to worry about, which I really hope is the case anyway.
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Geiger counter links
- Build Your Own Geiger Counter
Build a fully functional Geiger Counter capable of measuring the three primary forms of radiation; alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The counter is sensitive enough to detect background radiation. - GeigerCounters.com
- Geiger counter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Civil Defense geiger counters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hahaha! Harlan, that was part of my reason for posting this hoping, just hoping, it might help me increase my earnings here! Good luck to us both!
There is sometimes great comfort in living in ignorance. Lynda
Yes, so I have noticed because people who don't know all the stuff I do are often a lot happier! But then if people don't make any effort to find out the truths of what goes on the situation can continue or get worse. It is only those who are aware, sad or angry as they may be, that feel motivated to cause change!
Nice and awakening hub, good writer for sure
A useful device in this day and age and very well reviewed.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments, Jann and Spirit Whisperer!
Interesting concept, but what would you do if you find you have too much radiation. You can't get rid of it by swallowing a pill
That depends on what you believe, Peter! Scientologists have the Purification Rundown on which they consume high doses of vitamins and minerals and take exercise and saunas with the aim of sweating the toxins and radiation out. Other people like raw foodist Markus Rothkranz believe that if you have a very healthy body from eating raw foods and eating weeds that your immune system can handle reasonable amounts. Others believe that taking potassium iodide and kelp tablets will protect against radioactive iodine. If there isn't any to begin with then there is nothing to worry about but if there is then there are actions you can take such as leaving the area and taking health-giving supplements that might help combat it. You also know what you are dealing with as opposed to rumours that come about from news reports.
Hi "Bardsky" - I was fixing to do a GM counter article and now I don't have to. Your article did it all so very nicely. Peter Owen, commenter, asked a reasonable question, to which you supplied a reasonable set of answers. I would add a little bit to those. (1) For a time, quit eating anything, cooked or raw, that grew in a region beset with verifiable fallout, (2) potassium iodide can protect the thyroid gland from pickup of radioactive iodine if that is what is being dumped on your head, (3) don't ingest or breathe in alpha-emitting radioisotopes that may be in the fallout, if any, or in anything you eat or drink, (4) indoors is generally better than outdoors (turn off the A/C, and (5) surgical and particle masks do not screen out radioactivity unless it is adsorbed onto "aerosols" (dust, for example) that are of a trappable size, but, when you are out of a fallout area during which your face mask trapped the stuff, remember that what radioacivity it did trap is sitting in your mask right over your nose and mouth. AND, there's little point in making many, or even any, precautionary steps against gamma radiation. It takes a lot of lead to stop the stuff, so just keep away from active fallout. That's my sermon for the day.
Gus :-)))
Thanks for your great feedback, Gus!
Well, I'm stuck listening to my intuition as my only guide as to if it's safe outside or not. I can't afford a geiger counter and I don't know anyone who has one either.
With that said, my intuition hasn't given me any warnings. So I guess it is safe where I live. Even when it rains.
You might question how accurate my intuition is but, I don't. Back in the mid 70's it told me to stay out of sunlight as much as possible and that the danger had to do with the sun. Ten years later we were being warned about UV light and skin cancer.
I listen to my intuition!
I listened to mine in moving to Tenerife and now it looks like I am going to have to leave here later this year as I cannot afford to live here now. Looks like I cannot trust my intuition but glad to hear that you can trust yours!
Can't think of it like that Steve. It's just some things are not meant to be permanent no matter how badly we want them to be.
Your intuition brought you to Tenerife for a reason. Look at all the wonderful things you have experienced there! All the people whose lives you have touched even if just briefly! All the people who have touched your life even if just in some small way! Look at what you have learned. Look at how much you have taught us about the wonders of Tenerife and encouraged us to expand our knowledge about nature where we live by doing so. Look at all the other quality information you have given us on such a wide variety of topics!
Would you even be on HubPages if you never moved to Tennerife?
I consider it a blessing to have found you!
One chapter of your life seems, sadly, to be ending. I wish you could spend the rest of your life in the place you so dearly love. Unfortunately this may not be the case. No one really knows what the future holds for us. Something may yet happen so that you will not have to move. But if you really do end up moving just know that there is a reason! If you do have to move remember to take everything you can from Tenerife and hold on to it tightly in your heart and let it help you as you begin the next chapter of your life.
I thought of responding privately to you but, my intuition told me not to. As I am in a similar situation of being forced to move from my home. I am constantly reminding myself that there is a reason why this is happening to me. I figure somebody else may need to read these words as well.
Teresa, this is a major problem for me whatever I do and so very very unfair on my cat! In many ways that is what upsets me the most about this that my "little girl" will lose her home, be subjected to some 8 hours travelling in a plastic crate she hates and not knowing what is happening to her or where I have gone. Before all that I also have to get her chipped and jabbed, both of which procedures I am opposed to and she will hate as well! And then after all that I will have to start off again in a city that in many ways I felt drove me away to begin with!
You're taking a practical approach and hoping for the best.
I suppose I always do! Not much else I can do! I am an optimist in the most adverse of conditions though I admit I do get very depressed and frustrated!
I have a dehumidifier and an air purifier that both give out negative ions. Also a Himalayan Salt Lamp and a piece of tourmarine crystal that do the same. I also wear a Q-link around my neck, which helps to protect me from radiation.
Paranoid? Probably, but better to be paranoid than have my brain fried, right!
Thanks for posting, Aslanlight!
Do geiger counters detect radon from basements? Just wondering. a good hub.
I don't actually know but thanks for asking!
OK interesting story about geiger counters, however since we both know the whole Fukushima/Tsunami was a staged event just like 9/11 and a whole mess of other stuff, there must be more to this story than meets the eye . . . oh wise one, upon further reflection I suspect the whole affair in Japan was actually caused by a Nuclear explosion and the meltdown is a cover for the massive amounts of radiation in the Ocean which caused the Tsunami.
Of course we both also know it was about money, the scumbags are getting desperate, perhaps benjamin is right.
I was really looking for what my fellow hubbers think of Benjamin Fulford and now I believe I have found the source of a hubber that has written something meaningful about him . . . I thought I recognized the Avatar?
Thank you but I am not claiming I know anything of the sort!
That's probable why I don't read many of your hubs, I prefer folks that have the backbone to stand up for what they believe in right or wrong!
Well, it amazes me that people are so very sure of their beliefs! How do they do it, I always wonder! I have been studying all sorts of alternative material for many years and I find it very hard to be so definite about what is true. I have had to change several of my beliefs anyway eg I used to believe in chemtrails but haven't done so for nearly three years now.
I got to apologize to you for my earlier comments as it has been bugging me all day at work. Learning to restrain tongue and pen is something I am working on and feel really bad about the no backbone comment, really dumb on my part, sorry!
I have learned to trust my heart more (God given instincts) but have no right questioning the beliefs of others! Again I apologize! Just as I knew in my heart 9/11 was a farce, I also felt the Tsunami was contrived and there is now much evidence to support this.
As far as chem. trails go, it is hard to know what to believe, but having grown up on AF Bases all over the World, I know the difference between vapor trails and chem. trails.
Chem. trails take forever to dissipate and are found at a much lower altitude, vapor trails dissipate almost immediately and are formed at altitudes that are far higher.
I have felt the effects of chem. trails first hand and it ain't good, trust me what they are spraying isn't good for humans!
Hope you can forgive, thanx for showing tolerance!
Thanks for the apology! We will have to agree to disagree on chemtrails though seeing as I have never seen one but only thousands of contrails called chemtrails!
and the deception CONtinues, seems the con is working . . . and they say seeing is believing.
Well, that is what makes America great our ability to deceive not just the World but ourselves as well, feel free to CONsider them what you wish.
I have examined the matter in great depth and feel that the con is that an increasing number have been CONvinced that perfectly explainable contrails are something sinister! That is a CONspiracy in itself and I think William Thomas and Clifford Carnicom were the ones who started it! Contrailscience explains the whole matter.
Don't just the read the 'science' that proves it, as I'm sure folks were given perfectly good reasons the Earth was flat also.
The whole concept is that vapor or contrails happen at a very high altitude it is not physically possible at lower altitudes.
The whole concept that most people miss about 9/11 is that it is physically impossible due to atmospheric drag for an airliner to fly at the speeds proven to be what they were flying at when they hit the building (480mph). They can only achieve those speeds above 30,000 ft. they are not designed to fly at those speeds below it.
Same thing with contrails they only form when the amount of oxygen is less at higher altitudes. Ever wonder why we never saw them in the 50's, 60's and 70's unless the planes were very high?
It is a physical impossibility, same with NASA and the Apollo missions they were never able to get a monkey to live through the Van Ryan Asteroid belt, but somehow humans survived, so obviously they didn't use Apollo technology to get to the moon and back.
Feel free by all means to believe the lies, but just a little research and common sense tells you that something is amiss!
I would be happy to send you some links and names of books to judge for yourself, but many scientist claim free energy is impossible and yet wee have had the technology since the 30's (patented), investigate Tesla, why do think we iced him?
I think you'd get 10 out of 10 as a conspiracy theorist! I have lost most of my points and am a shill, a disinfo agent, a CIA employee and other such madness! As for persistent contrails they were here back in the 50s and photos show this. Suggest you have a look on contrailscience. There are simply a lot more planes up there now and a lot more water vapour. I personally think the chemtrail conspiracy is a load of rubbish just like the reptilian conspiracy and the moon being hollow!
Of course the whole point is to get the half intelligent members of the public to argue amongst them selves over petty differences, you say tomatoe I say tomato, (because I know how to use spellcheck). I believe they call it divide and conquer.
I think chem trails are the least of our problems and I killed a lizard in my backyard this fall so I'm doing my part, the whole thing about the Moon that bothers me is that we haven't been back, at least not publicly., very suspect.
There are much bigger fish to fry, then chem trails, now slug trails on the other hand is big problem.
I denied your other comment because I am not having you posting insults on here because I think chemtrails are rubbish! They don't exist so there is nothing to argue about but it still happens! I am sick of arguing with those that insist they do! I love lizards so was sad to hear you killed one!
it was humor you need to lighten up
You are probably right! I am currently stressed due to lack of money, and I get fed up with arguing this sort of info that I get a lot of at Facebook. I am caught in the middle anyway seeing as I contribute articles to Feed Your Brain mag which is mainly read by conspiracy theorists whilst I don't agree or believe in a lot of commonly believed material! And I have been arguing with chemtrailer believers here for the past couple of years in my hubs on the matter and elsewhere. But yes, I admit I am touchy! My turn to apologise!
No worries, I not totally convinced that one has to be for or against a subject in it's entirety. I think debate with good natured ribbing is fun, check out some of the comments me and Rob Schnieder throw back and forth between each other.
He is a professional writer that lives in Cambodia and likes to use HP's to write the fun stuff, it is very difficult to know what to believe, so often we both use sarcasm to make our points. There is no way any of us are going to convince any one that isn't looking to be convinced, it's human nature.
I'm not completely convinced of anything including Hollow Earth, Polar Shift, Nibiru or The Reptilian thing and no I didn't kill a lizard in my backyard as I believe all life is sacred, but was trying to lighten things up with my weird sense of humor!
No worries here as it is almost impossible to insult me, but feel free to try . . . I really like the term nutard so if you leave any comments on any of my hubs please refer to me as a nutard.
thankx for showing patience and tolerance with me
I love your writing!
Thanks for explaining! I have to get on with some work right now!
Harlan Colt Level 3 Commenter 13 months ago
Nice Hub Bard.
I don't see me buying one soon unless I somehow get rich off of hubpages, but I do find the information very useful.
Thank you for that.
- Harlan