Radioisotope Geology & Nuclear Reactor Research Laboratory: Large diffusion cloud chamber with radon gas double-decaying!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Large diffusion cloud chamber with radon gas double-decaying!

awesome demonstration of a massive diffusion cloud chamber - with normal background radiation vs. americium 241 vs. the epic RADON 220 gas! just wow!

ps: yeah, i know i accidentally said "Radium 220" instead of "Radon 220" once - and that i said "half time" instead of "half life" a couple of times. sorry about that, i was just drained after that awesome day at the museum and thus, unable to concentrate properly.

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Galen Winsor: Nuclear Scare Scam Exposed

Ben Williams Presents Galen Winsor - 1986 from Ben Williams on Vimeo.

Ben Williams (benwilliamslibrary.com) made this video with Galen Winsor in 1986. Galen Winsor is a nuclear physicist of renown who worked at, and helped design, nuclear power plants in Hanford, Washington; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Morris, Illinois, San Jose, California; Wimington, New Jersey. Among his positions of expertise he was in charge of measuring and controlling the nuclear fuel inventory and storage. Galen Winsor has traveled and lectured all over America, spoken on national talk radio, and made several videos exposing the misunderstood issues of nuclear radiation. He shows that fear of radiation has been exaggerated to scare people ... so a few powerful people can maintain total control of the world's most valuable power resource.

Radiation exposure during an intercontinental flight

during normal solar activity, radiation levels at 10-11 kilometers cruise altitude are about 2-3 uSv/h, which is 20 to 30 times the radiation you're exposed to on the ground. thus, you get about the same dose as from 1-2 chest x-rays if you fly for 11 hours (but distributed to all of your body - not just the chest, of course). however, wearing a lead apron to protect yourself would be pretty much useless, as the cosmic rays are of very high energy (after all, they already got into the plane in the first place).