We stand with Ukraine and condemn Vladmir Putin for his acts of aggression!

As we watched in horror the bombing of the reactor in Ukraine and the ongoing horrors, we were reminded of past nuclear disasters, and our reaction to them.  At that time,  we dug out our old Geiger counter that we bought at a mad scientist garage sale and began daily radiation readings. We are now doing that again!  We will also be pairing the daily radiation reading with a reading recommendation to form Rad Readings.

The radiation readings are once daily for one minute in our North Seattle location. Each reading will be for one minute at some point during the day (I’m not much for punctuality :-). The report will be the maximum MR/HR count that was reached, and the actual audio count that I record.  Please note that  I have never calibrated this Geiger counter, it’s an analog dial, and I’m counting audio beats while watching the dial, so the readings do have some error built into them.  However over time they should provide a good idea of what the real background radiation is, and show if there is any increase due to world events.

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