Hello Drew, I'm a health and safety officer in southern Alberta (Howdy neighbour!) and the hot springs in the Rockies are usually loaded with Radon gas that comes up with the hot water from the thermal springs underground. Uranium 238 solids decay into Radium 226 which decays/gasses-off as Radon 222. Basically, where there is a hot springs in our area (Montana/Alberta Rockies) there is a good chance there is naturally occuring radioactive materials around. Love your videos!
I’ve heard the same thing before. I’ve been to Radium Hot Springs up in Canada and that water was a little radioactive. I checked the water at Fairmont and it wasn’t radioactive.
Hello Drew, on April 14th you were talking to a neighbor couple of mine down south of Moab near Charley Steen's original mine, they texted me about you, I checked your channel out and subscribed.
Your neighbors were very nice and we had a great conversation about radiation and the history of uranium mining in the area. I even showed them a uranium mine that was pretty safe to walk in.
Here in Florida due to lobbying they are trying to do that. What gets me is the main people affected health wise will be the construction workers dealing with all the dust. There may have been some Coal Bottom Ash lobbying too, that stuff is extra nasty and sometimes just the elements themselves (Arsenic, Selenium, etc) not just radioactivity.
@@RadioactiveDrew it would be neat for you to take a peek if you are ever in the Jacksonville area, but if the data i saw is current we still have some *unlined coal bottom ash landfills* with monitor wells starting to show contamination. (North East side if I remember correctly) Not sure what you could get surface level, and it kay be less radioactive and moreso just “nasties”, but a thing to see nonetheless. A pile of them in the more Coal Mining / Burning Heavy states, Vice News did some investigation/talked with local people sometime on all that.
@@RadioactiveDrew Not many are driving around with an active Geiger counter. I have several cases of increased reading on I91 just west of the city of Corona between exit 71 and Auto Center Drive in California. I've not spent any time searching further for the source yet.
@ThinkingBetter it’s always interesting to try and find a source. I mapped out a portion of this radioactive road taking my dog on a walk. I walked off the road for a bit to make sure the radiation source was the road.
I've been out house hunting lately and one place I looked at in Amador county California my radiacode spiked up to 1k cpm inside the house, and going outside went up to 1.5k cpm. The house was on a slight hill with rock outcroppings everywhere. As cool as it was, needless to say I passed on that one since at the very least it would indicate a problem with high radon inside the home no doubt coming out of the ground from whatever was inside the soil and rocks.
In the 1970s I installed a Low Background radiation counter in Denver. The combination of altitude and slightly radioactive gravel used in the cement made it not so Low Background.
I live in Western Australia and there’s a lot of radioactive rocks here. Around my house I can measure over 2500 CPM on some rocks, and some of the plants and trees have deformities or grow in strange ways
@@RadioactiveDrew I’ve done a n analysis with a Radiacode 103 and the main peaks I’m getting is from thorium decay products. I’m planning to go out in the desert in a couple months and I’ll see if I find anything
That's pretty cool! I love using my radiacode, I wear it when I'm out in the rail yard inspecting consists. I picked up on one car that had potassium nitrite in it and was reading just under 1k cpm from the potassium-40
Very interesting. Now, all you need is a sheet of film, a phospher exciter screen and a flat light proof magazine. Then, Lay down on the road and put the magazine on top of you. Stay still for a while. Tada! Chest x-ray. 😁
i went from wanting to learn about radiation in electronics, to learning quite a bit now from the few videos i’ve seen from your channel. Subscribing, love finding smaller, but super beneficial videos with information like yours. thank you
Just got my Radiacode 102 yesterday, your channel was one of the big reasons why. I think it's interesting to find radioactive things like this in the wild, already found some uranium glass and fiestaware that I was able to now test with my radiacode (I have a cheapo amazon geiger). Thanks for the great videos!
Stauffer Chemical operated a phosphorus extraction facility at an area about halfway between Butte and Fairmont Hot Springs starting in the 50's. It's now a superfund site.
Hey Drew, always fun to see a local here and you have great content, I'm in Bozeman. I think I know a place you can go for a possible video :). Head up North Rouse to General distributing ... they have a great selection of welding supplies including a wall of thoriated tig welding electrodes. On your way to the M just past Griffin drive look left. It's kinda behind the gas station. Not sure if thats worthy but might be fun to check out. Daryl
400cpm is about what I measured in an airliner at 33,000ft on my GMC-500+. So driving on that road is about the same as taking a commercial flight. I wonder if the type of radiation is different though? Like maybe the cosmic rays up at altitude are actual particles instead of just gamma rays?
The radiation exposure on flights are mainly gamma rays. A lot of those gamma rays come from secondary reactions in our atmosphere from high speed particles hitting it.
@@RadioactiveDrew I was on trans pacific international flight last Christmas, glad my Radiacode 102 arrived the day before. I was getting about 700 cpm at cruising altitude of 35,000 ft and more interesting my hotel room in Okinawa was measuring 400 cpm, the grout material used between the floor tiles measured higher than other surfaces.
Great video as always and appreciate your presentation of this little known natural phenomenon. I don’t recollect ever seeing a presentation involving natural radiation exposure on a public airline flight. 2hr-10hr and longer. I’ve read where the findings are amazing. Of course does the aircraft retain the radiation once landed? Might set a light on the term “Frequent Flyer”……..
As someone from Hamilton MT never thought I would see that, interesting to find out. Thanks for another great video. Would be interesting to see what you might find in the Bitterroot Valley as far as readings go.
Problem is there is so much fear mongering with radiation. Instead of people taking the time to see if their fear is based in reality…a lot of them just subscribe to that fear.
On the CpM flip side as in the 2 dose nuclear heart stress test - I believe after measuring my own levels - they told me it was like getting 1 chest xray and didn’t effect anyone but me . I really liked your video on the random guy -
Hey man i love your videos! I bought a GMC 320s a while back and found a lot of neat stuff with it. You can actually find a lot of random things here in canada which put off sone high readings. Theres this common store near our house called Canadian Tire. They have a bunch of old lantern wicks which are filled to the brim with thorium, my most active source so far. And then i disassembled my smoke detector for an americium button which put off a decent reading. And i found an old radium clock at a thrift store which put off a small reading. The funny thing is that it wasnt even the watch hands. It was the dots on the crystal that glowed. We also found that salt substitute emits elevated levels. About 50 cpm. Im going to continue collecting sources from now on. But i want to let you know that you inspired me lol.
I sometimes go to Billings. Might head over that way over the summer to check out some uranium mines to the south. My email is the channel name (no spaces) at gmail.
In Beatty Nevada they used cement mixers from the Nevada test site to mix up cement for some folks house s they were building in the 60 sand 70 s .They had to go thru and tear down many houses s there because the mixers had been so radiated from working at the test site.
I've had my Radicode 102 for about a month and a half and for the first time the alarm went off twice where it shouldn't have in two different locations. Over 2K CPM was logged, nobody or anything was radioactive, it came and went in less than a minute. I'm guessing solar radiation or something burped out of the ground. No issues since then except for walking past my two compasses at home in a spare bedroom. Good video. Gotta love radioactive roads. 😁👍
Thanks for sharing your videos, find them very interesting. Have you ever done anything or heard of the possibly tall tale that involves the city of Niagara Falls NY. There is rampant pollution in the area that was directly related to the plentiful electricity available in the area during the early days of the prior century. Supposedly radioactive ore was processed in the area during the Manhattan project and the waste material was to be hauled away to local landfills. Truckers unaware of what they were hauling eventually started selling the perfectly fine crushed stone as they saw it to individuals fore driveway base material rather than taking it to the dump thusly getting paid twice for every load. Overheard a conversation once between an individual from that area talking to a prior military technician and the tech was indicating he once inadvertently saw a aerial photograph of the city of Niagara Falls and it was covered by small rectangular strips all over indicating radioactivity. He asked the former resident if could explain it? The prior resident laughed and told the story of radioactive driveways. Is it even possible to view radioactivity from aerial photography??
I have heard parts of this story before. It’s something I want to investigate. There are a lot of areas I want to explore on the east coast. As far as seeing radioactive areas from the air. This can be done with an aerial survey using very sensitive scintillation detectors.
Granite countertops are slightly radioactive and produce a little radon. Probably trivial. Florida phosphate deposits have a bit of radioactive content, no surprise. Also Florida has monazite sands.
Another bit that gets me is (granted iS iT eChoNomIcAl) that this could be used as a Uranium Source for nuclear power. Better than wasting it, removes that hazard from the tailings, and reduces how much you would need from other mines (in theory, may just be used for 2x production etc)
Idk if you have done it yet- but could you make a video sometime on how you calibrate your Radiacodes and what settings you use for the maps feature, etc? My fiancé and I just got our 103 and are learning so much already!
I would really doubt it. That material is very well contained and the only way it would contaminate an area would be if a warhead blew up without triggering a fission reaction.
I wonder if there is a correlation to the slag piles that used to be at the smelter site in Anaconda and the Berkeley pit in Butte, from whence the slag originated prior to ore refinement. Radiation measurements could be taken at both locations. Interesting find. You may be able to confirm road construction materials from the Montana Dept of Transportation.
I was seeing a similar increase in radiation in Butte as well. That will be for a future video. The EPA has a report on the radioactive slag that was used on roads in the area. I checked some copper slag piles by the river and I wasn’t getting as high of a reading as I was from the road near the hot springs.
It's all fine and dandy till the asphalt gets chipped and resurfaced. The power header they use for that will turn the aggregate into chips and dust.. that worries me. ( ex EOD tech) NBC is still my jam..lol
This is so interesting! I saw one video a few years ago where a man who worked in the nuclear industry stayed in a hotel in the US and found the walls to be way above background. He found it was in concrete made with naturally radioactive limestone that was used in the roof and walls. I believe the most radioactive part was the roof. I don’t remember the name of the channel or where the hotel was.
Well Radiacode is going to send out a model to test in a couple weeks. My contact at Radiacode told me the new sensor is much more robust and is able to handle rougher use and temperature fluctuations. It will also have better gamma spectroscopy resolution and will have better spectroscopy results with high radiation. That’s what I can remember off the top of my head.
Hi Drew can you please also give uSv/hr from the Radia in future as scintillators are best for human dose equivalent ratings since it calculates the energy bins of the incoming radiation. Cpm is only useful on these crystals in reference to themselves so giving the BG count has at least shown the difference so thank you.
Is it possible that slag from the Anaconda smelter that is just down the road was used in the hot mix? I worked in a lab that where we were analyzing samples as part od the smelter remediation. I am of the opinion that you are at greater risk from lead and arsenic exposure than the radiation.
Not quite…staying at the hot springs was a family thing to do with our kids and us. My wife and I went to Butte to see a Pink Floyd cover band, Pinky and the Floyd, one of the nights.
Weird.. I happen to live nearby the largest functioning nuclear plant in the world yet both my plant provided telemetry device as well as my own meter (which is obviously calibrated for Cs137) show on average 8-14CPM (and 0.05-0.09 micro sieverts per hour)… Interesting.
I think it's interesting to attribute this to lack of due diligence rather than the fact that it's better to get paid for radioactive waste than to pay for disposal. You could be right though. 🤷♂️
@@RadioactiveDrew the more I see how things tend to be done the more I'm inclined to assume malice over incompetence. That said, it's not like they're selling quack medical products that are radioactive, it's just a spicy road. Lol
Gamma is much more penetrating. When you hear of someone dying from ARS (acute radiation syndrome) it’s usually from gamma radiation exposure…that’s extremely high.
out of curiosity - what is your source for the statement that there are people "more sensitive to radiation"? Is this confirmed or you are making wild guesses? How one person can be more sensitive than another if the physics and the ability of photons and particles to deposit energy and damage cells is the same?
Well there are people more sensitive to chemical exposure than others. To say that everyone reacts the same to every kind of exposure wouldn’t be true. I’m trying to cover my bases in saying that an extremely small amount of people might be sensitive to low level radiation exposure. The overwhelming amount of information right now points to no effect from radiation doses this low.
@@RadioactiveDrew I don't think would be correct to make assumptions of how physics apply in interactions at atomic and sub-atomic level based on how complex biochemistry is "tuned" in the human body. In other words - everyone reacts the same to a speeding bullet, regardless of their sensitivity to the chemical makeup of the bullet - lead and copper. I asked because I thought you might have stumbled upon research papers on the subject.
@aestoev well there are people that react differently to the forces of gravity. Some people black out easier under high G’s than others. Humans my have extremely similar biological features but the same exact forces can effect people differently. Like I said, I’m trying to cover my bases because I can’t say with 100% certainty that everyone is going to react the same to low level radiation.
I wonder if there are any hotspots? I mean physics and chemistry would suggest there shouldn't be if the cause is phosphate slag, but in an abundance of caution, someone should try and figure that out. What would have to be done to take it to the next level? is there some kind of super-sensitive equipment than can be slowly dragged along that road behind a vehicle? I'd be interested to know. There must be some kind of equipment like that for all of the scenarios that might involve widespread contamination, such as a nuke plant disaster, or god forbid, fallout from a bomb?
You could get a Radiacode or something like a Ludlum Model 3 with a 44-9 probe used on eBay. The Radiacode is very sensitive to gamma radiation and the 44-9 probe is sensitive to alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
Anything that's on the head. Lower body is fine, and I don't get a migraine, but my head like a dental X-Ray I end up getting one. I will say this though I do a lot of mediation so I'm wondering if it throws me out of wack when I get one. Basically background Radiation is fine for me but a big blast to the head, I'll get a migraine.@@RadioactiveDrew
No you don't get migraines, you think that you get it but you don't. It's not possible. X rays can't cause pain except if you get hit with 50 Sieverts.@@LordGooben
Interesting. The road blocks the beta radiation, but the gamma rays go right through it. Will you ever go to St. George, Utah? "East, they (the atomic clouds) go over St. George, which always gets plastered." - Lewis Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, early 1950's.
I find it frustrating that the blm closes off enormous amounts of land because of old uranium mines they imploded and leveled everything that was in the area...
There are only a few buildings left of the original towns (I know of 2 separate places that have been mostly destroyed) that are left standing, the one town you can still use them as they where turned into usable cabins bit the others are fallen over and pretty sad shape.theyre not too far from you. I mentioned them to you once before on your Instagram.
Something like that would be helpful. Problem is even when something like this is known beforehand it can still be carried out. I’ve heard that in Florida they want to do something similar…using radioactive slag to make roads. I don’t think it’s a left or right issue. It’s a corruption issue.
Does anyone here collect not one but a bunch of fossilized megalodon teeth? My *single* megalodon is radioactive enough to set off my Terra-p without its beta shield I'm curious to see how radioactive a decent number of them together will be! ☢☢☢☢
Looking at the snow, have you eliminated the possibility of it being radioactive salt brine surface contamination from deep fracking waste! (if you’re not aware of this, please see the video at the bottom) I’d love to see you, gather some of the dust at the side of the road. It should accumulate either side of the road due to the camber in the road! If I’m right, your readings will not be uniform. They will be much higher at the sides of the road from run-off. If this theory is correct, then you might want to check the bottom of your shoes as well because low-level radiation caught up in aggregate is one thing, but low-level radiation in dust bowing around on the wind is quite another. czcams.com/video/xZPaJwFFE2k/video.htmlfeature=shared
Interesting find Drew. I understand both Denver and Grand Junction Colorado have greater levels of radioactivity in places where uranium mine talings were used in the concrete and as a base layer for roads. I can understand why it was used. They had a ready made crushed rock that was considered waste they want to get rid of and could sell. Back in the day when these mines and mills were running they may have thought the levels of radioactivity of the waste rock was acceptable. I wonder if any of this material found its way into the concrete of buildings the are occupied.
Hello Drew, I'm a health and safety officer in southern Alberta (Howdy neighbour!) and the hot springs in the Rockies are usually loaded with Radon gas that comes up with the hot water from the thermal springs underground. Uranium 238 solids decay into Radium 226 which decays/gasses-off as Radon 222. Basically, where there is a hot springs in our area (Montana/Alberta Rockies) there is a good chance there is naturally occuring radioactive materials around. Love your videos!
I’ve heard the same thing before. I’ve been to Radium Hot Springs up in Canada and that water was a little radioactive. I checked the water at Fairmont and it wasn’t radioactive.
beat me to explaining it.
Hello Drew, on April 14th you were talking to a neighbor couple of mine down south of Moab near Charley Steen's original mine, they texted me about you, I checked your channel out and subscribed.
Your neighbors were very nice and we had a great conversation about radiation and the history of uranium mining in the area. I even showed them a uranium mine that was pretty safe to walk in.
Here in Florida due to lobbying they are trying to do that.
What gets me is the main people affected health wise will be the construction workers dealing with all the dust.
There may have been some Coal Bottom Ash lobbying too, that stuff is extra nasty and sometimes just the elements themselves (Arsenic, Selenium, etc) not just radioactivity.
That whole thing in Florida is crazy. It surprises me that they want to use contaminated material. Definitely some money changing hands there.
@@RadioactiveDrew it would be neat for you to take a peek if you are ever in the Jacksonville area, but if the data i saw is current we still have some *unlined coal bottom ash landfills* with monitor wells starting to show contamination. (North East side if I remember correctly)
Not sure what you could get surface level, and it kay be less radioactive and moreso just “nasties”, but a thing to see nonetheless.
A pile of them in the more Coal Mining / Burning Heavy states, Vice News did some investigation/talked with local people sometime on all that.
That's an incredible find. Pretty cool.
It was a pleasant surprise.
@@RadioactiveDrew Not many are driving around with an active Geiger counter. I have several cases of increased reading on I91 just west of the city of Corona between exit 71 and Auto Center Drive in California. I've not spent any time searching further for the source yet.
@ThinkingBetter it’s always interesting to try and find a source. I mapped out a portion of this radioactive road taking my dog on a walk. I walked off the road for a bit to make sure the radiation source was the road.
I've been out house hunting lately and one place I looked at in Amador county California my radiacode spiked up to 1k cpm inside the house, and going outside went up to 1.5k cpm. The house was on a slight hill with rock outcroppings everywhere. As cool as it was, needless to say I passed on that one since at the very least it would indicate a problem with high radon inside the home no doubt coming out of the ground from whatever was inside the soil and rocks.
In the 1970s I installed a Low Background radiation counter in Denver. The combination of altitude and slightly radioactive gravel used in the cement made it not so Low Background.
I live in Denver and in my apartment I routinely run ~700 cpm in my bedroom. Brick exterior. Can run into the 800s. 600s away from the exterior walls.
Uncle Sam makes Plutonium cores for nuclear weapons in Rocky Flats, not far from Denver.
@JohnShalamskas well they use to make atomic triggers there at Rocky Flats. The above ground facility is gone now.
@@RadioactiveDrew There was a Plutonium fire there in 1957. czcams.com/video/PhnmmdoC2VY/video.html&pp=ygUbcGx1aXRvbml1bSBmaXJlIHJvY2t5IGZsYXRz
@@RadioactiveDrew That site had 2 plutonium fires.
Drew, thank you for your great videos. I just ordered a Radiacode 103.
I live in Western Australia and there’s a lot of radioactive rocks here. Around my house I can measure over 2500 CPM on some rocks, and some of the plants and trees have deformities or grow in strange ways
That's probably because you're in australia, not because of radiation.
Australia has some really good deposits of uranium. So maybe you are picking up on some of that.
@@RadioactiveDrew I’ve done a n analysis with a Radiacode 103 and the main peaks I’m getting is from thorium decay products. I’m planning to go out in the desert in a couple months and I’ll see if I find anything
That's pretty cool! I love using my radiacode, I wear it when I'm out in the rail yard inspecting consists. I picked up on one car that had potassium nitrite in it and was reading just under 1k cpm from the potassium-40
I grew up in Great Falls and live in Billings. Love your videos and coverage of Montana.
Very interesting. Now, all you need is a sheet of film, a phospher exciter screen and a flat light proof magazine. Then, Lay down on the road and put the magazine on top of you. Stay still for a while. Tada! Chest x-ray. 😁
You'll either end up with a chest x-ray or become a road pizza.
i went from wanting to learn about radiation in electronics, to learning quite a bit now from the few videos i’ve seen from your channel. Subscribing, love finding smaller, but super beneficial videos with information like yours. thank you
Glad you found the channel.
Great Video! My Radiacode will arrive tomorrow. Can't wait to explore myself.
Have fun exploring. There’s always something radioactive to find out there.
Awesome stuff about the road!
Thanks.
Just got my Radiacode 102 yesterday, your channel was one of the big reasons why. I think it's interesting to find radioactive things like this in the wild, already found some uranium glass and fiestaware that I was able to now test with my radiacode (I have a cheapo amazon geiger). Thanks for the great videos!
That’s awesome. I carry my Radiacode around with me everywhere. Glad you enjoy the videos.
Great video, Drew...👍
Stauffer Chemical operated a phosphorus extraction facility at an area about halfway between Butte and Fairmont Hot Springs starting in the 50's. It's now a superfund site.
I very much enjoy your realistic view of radiation! I was a trained x-ray tech, so I get it!
Glad you enjoy the videos. I get a lot of comments from people that work with radiation in a bunch of different fields and most people like what I do.
Great job Drew, Thank you.
Hey Drew, always fun to see a local here and you have great content, I'm in Bozeman. I think I know a place you can go for a possible video :). Head up North Rouse to General distributing ... they have a great selection of welding supplies including a wall of thoriated tig welding electrodes. On your way to the M just past Griffin drive look left. It's kinda behind the gas station. Not sure if thats worthy but might be fun to check out. Daryl
400cpm is about what I measured in an airliner at 33,000ft on my GMC-500+. So driving on that road is about the same as taking a commercial flight. I wonder if the type of radiation is different though? Like maybe the cosmic rays up at altitude are actual particles instead of just gamma rays?
The radiation exposure on flights are mainly gamma rays. A lot of those gamma rays come from secondary reactions in our atmosphere from high speed particles hitting it.
@@RadioactiveDrew I was on trans pacific international flight last Christmas, glad my Radiacode 102 arrived the day before. I was getting about 700 cpm at cruising altitude of 35,000 ft and more interesting my hotel room in Okinawa was measuring 400 cpm, the grout material used between the floor tiles measured higher than other surfaces.
Great video as always and appreciate your presentation of this little known natural phenomenon. I don’t recollect ever seeing a presentation involving natural radiation exposure on a public airline flight. 2hr-10hr and longer. I’ve read where the findings are amazing.
Of course does the aircraft retain the radiation once landed?
Might set a light on the term “Frequent Flyer”……..
Let it snow, yellow glow, yellow glow. Bit late for Xmas carols 😅
like the radioactive road hwy 141 by uravan, the base built with mill trailings, screeming gamma rad.
As someone from Hamilton MT never thought I would see that, interesting to find out. Thanks for another great video. Would be interesting to see what you might find in the Bitterroot Valley as far as readings go.
Most will freak out over any radiation! I was an x-ray tech, so I saw it all of the time!
Problem is there is so much fear mongering with radiation. Instead of people taking the time to see if their fear is based in reality…a lot of them just subscribe to that fear.
I ordered my Radiacode 103 yesterday…
Love it man. Could imagine how much you could find along the railroads too.
On the CpM flip side as in the 2 dose nuclear heart stress test - I believe after measuring my own levels - they told me it was like getting 1 chest xray and didn’t effect anyone but me .
I really liked your video on the random guy -
You should do Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls Montana
Hey man i love your videos! I bought a GMC 320s a while back and found a lot of neat stuff with it. You can actually find a lot of random things here in canada which put off sone high readings. Theres this common store near our house called Canadian Tire. They have a bunch of old lantern wicks which are filled to the brim with thorium, my most active source so far. And then i disassembled my smoke detector for an americium button which put off a decent reading. And i found an old radium clock at a thrift store which put off a small reading. The funny thing is that it wasnt even the watch hands. It was the dots on the crystal that glowed.
We also found that salt substitute emits elevated levels.
About 50 cpm.
Im going to continue collecting sources from now on. But i want to let you know that you inspired me lol.
Drew, if you ever get to Billings, Montana I would like to meet you. Like your content
I sometimes go to Billings. Might head over that way over the summer to check out some uranium mines to the south. My email is the channel name (no spaces) at gmail.
In Beatty Nevada they used cement mixers from the Nevada test site to mix up cement for some folks house s they were building in the 60 sand 70 s .They had to go thru and tear down many houses s there because the mixers had been so radiated from working at the test site.
I'll have to look into this a little more.
I've had my Radicode 102 for about a month and a half and for the first time the alarm went off twice where it shouldn't have in two different locations. Over 2K CPM was logged, nobody or anything was radioactive, it came and went in less than a minute. I'm guessing solar radiation or something burped out of the ground. No issues since then except for walking past my two compasses at home in a spare bedroom.
Good video.
Gotta love radioactive roads. 😁👍
It’s hard to tell what random events like that area. Could be cosmic radiation or something else passing by you. Glad you liked the video.
We must always consider the difference between what the device is measuring and what can be inhaled and taken up to receive and internal exposure
Thanks for sharing your videos, find them very interesting.
Have you ever done anything or heard of the possibly tall tale that involves the city of Niagara Falls NY. There is rampant pollution in the area that was directly related to the plentiful electricity available in the area during the early days of the prior century. Supposedly radioactive ore was processed in the area during the Manhattan project and the waste material was to be hauled away to local landfills. Truckers unaware of what they were hauling eventually started selling the perfectly fine crushed stone as they saw it to individuals fore driveway base material rather than taking it to the dump thusly getting paid twice for every load. Overheard a conversation once between an individual from that area talking to a prior military technician and the tech was indicating he once inadvertently saw a aerial photograph of the city of Niagara Falls and it was covered by small rectangular strips all over indicating radioactivity. He asked the former resident if could explain it? The prior resident laughed and told the story of radioactive driveways. Is it even possible to view radioactivity from aerial photography??
I have heard parts of this story before. It’s something I want to investigate. There are a lot of areas I want to explore on the east coast.
As far as seeing radioactive areas from the air. This can be done with an aerial survey using very sensitive scintillation detectors.
Happy rad hunting.
Thanks.
Thanks for sharing ✌🏽‼️
No problem. Thanks for the comment as always.
Granite countertops are slightly radioactive and produce a little radon. Probably trivial.
Florida phosphate deposits have a bit of radioactive content, no surprise. Also Florida has monazite sands.
GREAT VIDEO !
Thanks.
Neat find. I wonder if the people who live there even know? Not that it really matters. It didn't seem to bother the goats much! Lol! Thanks Drew!❤
Another bit that gets me is (granted iS iT eChoNomIcAl) that this could be used as a Uranium Source for nuclear power. Better than wasting it, removes that hazard from the tailings, and reduces how much you would need from other mines (in theory, may just be used for 2x production etc)
I hear Denver roads and brick houses saying “hold my beer.”
There's a resort in Iran known as Ramsar which is way more radioactive than Montana Hot Springs.
Would be cool to check out one of these days.
They have so much leftover slag and other materials from these processes, it's good that it can be recycled as an aggregate for road use.
I'm more concerned about the dangers from the emanations from politicians - far more dangerous even at massive distances.
Very very true.
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I don’t know. The Easter Bunny seems to have rank on them or at least on Biden.
Idk if you have done it yet- but could you make a video sometime on how you calibrate your Radiacodes and what settings you use for the maps feature, etc? My fiancé and I just got our 103 and are learning so much already!
Yes, I’m planning on making a video about calibration and settings I use.
Fellow Montana here. I wonder of there is radioactivity up on the high line where they used to have nukes ready to go?
I would really doubt it. That material is very well contained and the only way it would contaminate an area would be if a warhead blew up without triggering a fission reaction.
The Hampton Inn in Downtown Bradenton, Florida is radioactive, I was getting 1.5k cpm with my Radiacode 102 just sitting in my room on the 7th floor.
Been there a few times. (used to live in Butte)*
You should take a trip to the small island where Tsar was tested! Measure the rads and collect some ground samples.
I wonder if there is a correlation to the slag piles that used to be at the smelter site in Anaconda and the Berkeley pit in Butte, from whence the slag originated prior to ore refinement. Radiation measurements could be taken at both locations. Interesting find. You may be able to confirm road construction materials from the Montana Dept of Transportation.
I was seeing a similar increase in radiation in Butte as well. That will be for a future video. The EPA has a report on the radioactive slag that was used on roads in the area. I checked some copper slag piles by the river and I wasn’t getting as high of a reading as I was from the road near the hot springs.
It's all fine and dandy till the asphalt gets chipped and resurfaced. The power header they use for that will turn the aggregate into chips and dust.. that worries me. ( ex EOD tech) NBC is still my jam..lol
This is so interesting! I saw one video a few years ago where a man who worked in the nuclear industry stayed in a hotel in the US and found the walls to be way above background. He found it was in concrete made with naturally radioactive limestone that was used in the roof and walls. I believe the most radioactive part was the roof. I don’t remember the name of the channel or where the hotel was.
Hi Drew! Thanks as always! What can you tell us about the 103g? Just curious.
Well Radiacode is going to send out a model to test in a couple weeks. My contact at Radiacode told me the new sensor is much more robust and is able to handle rougher use and temperature fluctuations. It will also have better gamma spectroscopy resolution and will have better spectroscopy results with high radiation. That’s what I can remember off the top of my head.
Wow, you do finde radiation in the most unlikely places.
Thanks for sharing.
Are you able to notice the increase in radiation with the radiacode just in your car?
Yes, as soon as I got off the interstate highway the radiation went from 200 CPM to 900 CPM.
@@RadioactiveDrewOh cool, next time I drive pretty far I'll have to keep an eye on it then.
@@RadioactiveDrew What? The metal in the car floor was not blocking it?
Hi Drew do you have a video of visiting Santa Susana Field Laboratory area?
Not yet. But I’m working on one.
cool
Hi Drew can you please also give uSv/hr from the Radia in future as scintillators are best for human dose equivalent ratings since it calculates the energy bins of the incoming radiation.
Cpm is only useful on these crystals in reference to themselves so giving the BG count has at least shown the difference so thank you.
Is it possible that slag from the Anaconda smelter that is just down the road was used in the hot mix? I worked in a lab that where we were analyzing samples as part od the smelter remediation. I am of the opinion that you are at greater risk from lead and arsenic exposure than the radiation.
It’s possible but I kind of doubt it.
As someone who owns a radiacode, I've noticed Cars or very good shields for background radiation
I was wondering if you could do a video on those luminous radium disks :)
be surprised how many locations in the US that don't seem to be radioactive are
What isotopes did you detect?
Hi Drew - Well, Trinity this spring is a bust. Are you planning on going in October this year?
Any idea what elements are decaying?
wife says lets go have a romantic get away ,'Drew " Sweet "goes get all readers ,cameras LOL
Not quite…staying at the hot springs was a family thing to do with our kids and us. My wife and I went to Butte to see a Pink Floyd cover band, Pinky and the Floyd, one of the nights.
Weird.. I happen to live nearby the largest functioning nuclear plant in the world yet both my plant provided telemetry device as well as my own meter (which is obviously calibrated for Cs137) show on average 8-14CPM (and 0.05-0.09 micro sieverts per hour)… Interesting.
Radioactivedude , find one of these nice shoe machines with a strange bulb in it yet 😊
Please use dose rate not count rate to compare radiation with background, because it's the energy that "counts" :)
I never knew that Idaho, Montana and Florida have radiation in the roads
I think it's interesting to attribute this to lack of due diligence rather than the fact that it's better to get paid for radioactive waste than to pay for disposal. You could be right though. 🤷♂️
At this point it could be corruption or stupidity. Hard to know well after the fact.
@@RadioactiveDrew the more I see how things tend to be done the more I'm inclined to assume malice over incompetence. That said, it's not like they're selling quack medical products that are radioactive, it's just a spicy road. Lol
Do you know what Radioisotope is emitting the radiation?
The gamma spectrum was very messy. It seemed like the radiation was coming from a host of different isotopes. Looked like uranium, thorium and radium.
Which radiation is worse for your health between gamma or beta?
Gamma is much more penetrating. When you hear of someone dying from ARS (acute radiation syndrome) it’s usually from gamma radiation exposure…that’s extremely high.
Ok got it. It’s not dangerous unless you eat it.
Desantis the governor of Florida wants to do this with the roads starting in Boca Raton,Fl
out of curiosity - what is your source for the statement that there are people "more sensitive to radiation"? Is this confirmed or you are making wild guesses? How one person can be more sensitive than another if the physics and the ability of photons and particles to deposit energy and damage cells is the same?
Well there are people more sensitive to chemical exposure than others. To say that everyone reacts the same to every kind of exposure wouldn’t be true. I’m trying to cover my bases in saying that an extremely small amount of people might be sensitive to low level radiation exposure. The overwhelming amount of information right now points to no effect from radiation doses this low.
@@RadioactiveDrew I don't think would be correct to make assumptions of how physics apply in interactions at atomic and sub-atomic level based on how complex biochemistry is "tuned" in the human body. In other words - everyone reacts the same to a speeding bullet, regardless of their sensitivity to the chemical makeup of the bullet - lead and copper. I asked because I thought you might have stumbled upon research papers on the subject.
@aestoev well there are people that react differently to the forces of gravity. Some people black out easier under high G’s than others. Humans my have extremely similar biological features but the same exact forces can effect people differently. Like I said, I’m trying to cover my bases because I can’t say with 100% certainty that everyone is going to react the same to low level radiation.
I wonder if there are any hotspots? I mean physics and chemistry would suggest there shouldn't be if the cause is phosphate slag, but in an abundance of caution, someone should try and figure that out. What would have to be done to take it to the next level? is there some kind of super-sensitive equipment than can be slowly dragged along that road behind a vehicle? I'd be interested to know. There must be some kind of equipment like that for all of the scenarios that might involve widespread contamination, such as a nuke plant disaster, or god forbid, fallout from a bomb?
Can you please check if the paint on soda and or beer boxes are radio active using Radiacode?
Not sure what you’re talking about?
@@RadioactiveDrew the boxes that hold 12 cans of coke or 6 bottles of beer. They have paint on them. I'm curious if that paint is radioactive.
@@RadioactiveDrew it's known that some paints are radioactive, other than luminous paint.
Good morning Drew, I sell oilfield scrap metal from Time to time. what radioactive monitor do you recommend?
You could get a Radiacode or something like a Ludlum Model 3 with a 44-9 probe used on eBay. The Radiacode is very sensitive to gamma radiation and the 44-9 probe is sensitive to alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
@@RadioactiveDrew thank you much!
@ramongonzalez2909 no problem. Hope all that helped.
Great vid, for myself with Radiation I do have to be careful, For example, if I get an X-Ray I'll end up getting a migraine a short period later.
That could be anxiety from getting an X-ray. But it’s hard to say for sure. What kind of X-ray did you notice that migraine on?
Anything that's on the head. Lower body is fine, and I don't get a migraine, but my head like a dental X-Ray I end up getting one. I will say this though I do a lot of mediation so I'm wondering if it throws me out of wack when I get one. Basically background Radiation is fine for me but a big blast to the head, I'll get a migraine.@@RadioactiveDrew
No you don't get migraines, you think that you get it but you don't. It's not possible. X rays can't cause pain except if you get hit with 50 Sieverts.@@LordGooben
Interesting. The road blocks the beta radiation, but the gamma rays go right through it. Will you ever go to St. George, Utah? "East, they (the atomic clouds) go over St. George, which always gets plastered." - Lewis Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, early 1950's.
It’s all cool and casual, until…. you breath one or two hot particles into your lungs.
Then… all bets are off 🤥
Define a hot particle…because nothing that makes this road radioactive would qualify.
I find it frustrating that the blm closes off enormous amounts of land because of old uranium mines they imploded and leveled everything that was in the area...
I hate when anything that took so much time and effort to build is destroyed for no reason. Mining history is such an interesting part of US history.
@RadioactiveDrew lol I can show ya where it's at, there are a few remnants of the old "town" but where the mines where is pretty obvious.
I’ve been to an area like this, Uravan in Colorado was a town destroyed by the EPA and the state health department. Nothing left of that area.
There are only a few buildings left of the original towns (I know of 2 separate places that have been mostly destroyed) that are left standing, the one town you can still use them as they where turned into usable cabins bit the others are fallen over and pretty sad shape.theyre not too far from you. I mentioned them to you once before on your Instagram.
Unreal… Dept of Transportation needs citizens Oversite…
Something like that would be helpful. Problem is even when something like this is known beforehand it can still be carried out. I’ve heard that in Florida they want to do something similar…using radioactive slag to make roads. I don’t think it’s a left or right issue. It’s a corruption issue.
Does anyone here collect not one but a bunch of fossilized megalodon teeth? My *single* megalodon is radioactive enough to set off my Terra-p without its beta shield I'm curious to see how radioactive a decent number of them together will be! ☢☢☢☢
Highly interesting.
Radiacode 103G ?! Share please ❤
Looking at the snow, have you eliminated the possibility of it being radioactive salt brine surface contamination from deep fracking waste!
(if you’re not aware of this, please see the video at the bottom)
I’d love to see you, gather some of the dust at the side of the road. It should accumulate either side of the road due to the camber in the road!
If I’m right, your readings will not be uniform. They will be much higher at the sides of the road from run-off.
If this theory is correct, then you might want to check the bottom of your shoes as well because low-level radiation caught up in aggregate is one thing, but low-level radiation in dust bowing around on the wind is quite another.
czcams.com/video/xZPaJwFFE2k/video.htmlfeature=shared
Won't let me watch.
sounds like a you problem.
Roads made of nuclear waste... not a good idea (much or little radiation, if I lived there I would sue the government)
How Can YOU SAY NO Health Problems ??? My Family Got Cancer There.... In The Air Food & Water Then IN YOU Wow So Stupid
imagine typing as horribly as you do and calling other people stupid. what a joke.
There is no way that stuff gets in the air to a level that it's harmful. And is there any evidence that it goes into the groundwater and food?
Interesting find Drew. I understand both Denver and Grand Junction Colorado have greater levels of radioactivity in places where uranium mine talings were used in the concrete and as a base layer for roads. I can understand why it was used. They had a ready made crushed rock that was considered waste they want to get rid of and could sell. Back in the day when these mines and mills were running they may have thought the levels of radioactivity of the waste rock was acceptable. I wonder if any of this material found its way into the concrete of buildings the are occupied.