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rgray222
12th July 2011, 23:58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm2fV0ag6tY&feature=player_embedded

We got stuck next to this truck during the 7pm July 1st holiday traffic on North bound I-270, after seeing the Radioactive warning placards we pulled out the Geiger Counter and Camera. Lesson learned, AVOID RADIOACTIVE TRUCKS!

The Geiger counter samples over a 30 second moving average, updated every 3 seconds. Notice how the reading on the Geiger Counter keeps moving upwards after we pass the truck; had we stayed next to the radioactive truck the readings would have went even higher.

Pray for the truck driver; the source of gamma rays appeared to be located almost directly behind the driver. One would think that these things would be much more heavily shielded, located further away from the driver, and that such materials would be transported when other people are not on the road.
The truck exited I-270 at Lilac Ave.

Source: http://www.potrblog.com/

pharoah21
13th July 2011, 00:16
Humanity. We are an odd race.

Czarek
13th July 2011, 03:31
What a joke. Here is another example of some one having an instrument that has no idea what the readings are, what the warning plaque on the truck is... You could be shopping at your local grocery store and you'll have people standing next to you generating exposure readings that would be off the scale on some exposure meters.

DeDukshyn
13th July 2011, 03:46
Those levels are considered safe - even for continous exposure: http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q349.html

Etherios
13th July 2011, 10:27
Those levels are considered safe - even for continous exposure: http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q349.html

When you start to glow plz take a picture and post it :-) its safe dont worry.

Carmody
15th July 2011, 04:09
What a joke. Here is another example of some one having an instrument that has no idea what the readings are, what the warning plaque on the truck is... You could be shopping at your local grocery store and you'll have people standing next to you generating exposure readings that would be off the scale on some exposure meters.

Explain if you can, please.

Thank you. :)

pharoah21
15th July 2011, 05:00
All radioactive exposure, to me, is dangerous in some way.