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Tepix on Feb 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?

What equipment does it take to take these kinds of detailed readings (iodine 131)?

I've considered running a simple DIY geiger counter RadMon monitoring kit (https://sites.google.com/site/diygeigercounter/gk-radmon ) however that would only give me CPM and µSv/h.

cocoablazing on Feb 20, 2017 [–]

You need a concentrating system and a spectroscopic radiation measurement system to produce a signal with sufficient SNR.

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