[ RadSafe ] Radiation survey of Japanese automobiles after Fukushima

[Cueva, Louie]

In the weeks after the F-D event I surveyed contaminated sea-land containers that originated from ports in Japan.  The activity of alarm events from the Port's portal monitoring decayed out (pun intended).  Once in a while we get notification of a hit on a truck exiting the Port, but have not seen activity in months.  A gamma-spec of some of the initial containers indicated Cs-137, Cs-134 and lesser ratios of I-131.  The contamination almost always was the result of environmental (removable) contamination in cracks and crevices of the container exteriors. 

-Louie

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Waller
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 7:41 AM
To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Radiation survey of Japanese automobiles after Fukushima

I am wondering if anyone else has been asked to perform radiation survey on automobiles from Japan in relation to the Fukushima-Daiichi event?  I have heard of a few people who were approached by car dealerships to perform radiation survey a few years ago (and find nothing) and I was recently asked the same.  I would like to find out of this phenomena is widespread and continuing. Also, if anyone knows of anything published to this effect, I would be interested in reading about it.

 

Best regards,

Ed

 

Edward Waller, PhD, PEng, CAIH, CHP

Professor, Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science

NSERC/UNENE IRC in Health Physics and Environmental Safety

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

 

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