{"id":21,"date":"2012-04-10T02:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/blog\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2012-06-27T01:57:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T01:57:39","slug":"radioactivity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Radioactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Radiation and Radon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Radiation is all around us. As natural isotopes continuously degrade, they release \u03b1-particles, \u03b2-particles and \u03b3-rays.<\/p>\n<p>I live (relatively) close to a natural out-gassing area called the &#8220;Reading Prong&#8221; which is an area that extends from Reading, Pennsylvania up through northern New Jersey and southeastern New York. This area contains higher levels of uranium than surrounding areas of these associated states. [1]<\/p>\n<p>I purchased a radiation monitor (Geiger Counter) from <a title=\"Aware Electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aw-el.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aware Electronics<\/a> in 2005 to monitor the radon levels in the basement. I settled on their product as it can be easily interfaced to a monitoring computer and the results can be graphed and updated regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am monitoring natural occurring radiation in the basement. The above graphs plot micro rads (uR) vs time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>\u00a01. Schutz, D. \u00a0Geology of the Reading Prong. \u00a0Environment.\u00a0 1987: 29(2). pp:14-15<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aw-el.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25 aligncenter\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The graphs displayed on the data page are created with a batch file and some programs from Aware, including &#8216;joinrad.exe&#8217; and a small DOS program called &#8216;bmp2gif.exe&#8217;. \u00a0The latter program is needed because the graphing program only outputs a .bmp file (as far as I know). \u00a0A copy of my batch file is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-190\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Radiation and Radon Radiation is all around us. As natural isotopes continuously degrade, they release \u03b1-particles, \u03b2-particles and \u03b3-rays. I live (relatively) close to a natural out-gassing area called the &#8220;Reading Prong&#8221; which is an area that extends from Reading, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?page_id=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}