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Re: Welcome to California
Mr. Speer,
I suggest you submit your question to Senator Sheila Kuehl, at the California State Capitol, Room 4032 Sacramento, CA 95814 (Phone: (916) 445-1353) (Fax (916) 324-4823). I sincerely doubt she will know the answer, but as the author of SB 1444, she should, and you might want to let her know that she should.
Of course, it probably won't matter to her one bit that she doesn't, because it has become quite apparent over the last five months to any reasonably educated person in the State of California that Ms. Kuehl is clearly not interested in the reality of radiation safety and measurement, but only in what scaring the pants off the public will buy her in terms of votes and campaign contributions.
Sincerely,
Barbara L. Hamrick
Private Citizen
In a message dated 05/31/2002 7:44:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Speercl@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
I am in the beginning stages of starting my own business of performing radiation scanning surveys of large land areas. If I was to perform gamma surveys for license termination in California, what would be the "best" technology available to perform these surveys? I know sampling will have to be done and can be counted on a HPGe, REGe or the like, but what about land area scanning? Typically in the past 2 x 2 NaI detectors were used, and large area plastic scintillator (LAPS) detectors are comparable, but the "Best" is . . . .? I have thought about getting a 4 x 4 x 4 NaI but then a 4 x 4 x 16 NaI would be better. . .then four 4x4x16 NaI detectors would be better still. But then this large of a detector array would mean I would be averaging a point source over the field of view of the detector system . . . I run into the s!
ame line of thinking when I try to figure out how fast to scan. I typically take a moving one second count with a LAPS using a GPS, but wouldn't a one minute static count be better before moving on? What detector and scanning method is out there that can measure gamma emitting radioisotopes to a 1 in a 1,000,000 cancer risk?