New Mexico Air Monitors Pick Up Americium -241, Plutonium -239, and Cesium -137

[Jonas Stanley]

http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/nmrcb/documents/LasConchasFireAirMonitoring.html

[Jonas Stanley]

Found this article this morning, "Head of NM resource protection office resigns."

http://www.newswest9.com/story/15110228/head-of-nm-resource-protect...

 

Bet it's related...

 

[Jonas Stanley]

That's the question I have too Cheryl. If they have the ability to detect a specific isotope like plutonium than doesn't that fact alone preclude it from being "background radiation "? There are naturally occurring radiation sources of course but these 3 isotopes are not among them. At least they weren't before 1945...

And Keith of course you are right, all land on earth is too beautiful to poison. Taos is just special, it's one of my wife's favorite spots. She's always told me that it is a spiritual place, and sacred.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Jonas, I think you may be right.  They are cooking the books on the statistics to keep us asleep.  Is there ever background plutonium radiation?

[Jonas Stanley]

Thanks Keith, I thought I must have been misinterpreting the data. I feel better knowing I wasn't. I just wish it wasn't happening at all, Taos is too beautiful a place to have It's air poisoned.

[Jonas Stanley]

I think you are correct in your reading of the chart guys, and that is what the guidelines say. That being said, I do not believe any level of these 3 man made radioisotopes in our air is normal. IMO there is no okay dose limit for something as toxic as plutonium. Are we in agreement that the data reveals the presence of these isotopes in some concentration within the air of New Mexico? Or am I not reading the charts correctly? Entirely possible, I am surely no scientist.

[Cheryl Nelson]

I'm not sure if I'm reading the chart correctly, but it seems that the MDA (minimum detectable activity) is normal?  And the NDA is anything above normal?  If that is correct, then the chart is saying that there is not a problem there.  Does anyone else see it differently?