Good work all around Paul, thought you might like this video and isn't his meter the same as yours. And Gives an idea what it can take to prepare a sample for more specific analysis. ruclips.net/video/f7nHndmbl10/видео.htmlsi=gWUEGielTh5IFNly
Thank you sir...This is the typical preparation for food and yes it's the same detector. The only radionuclide this device can measure in food or water is Cesium specifically only. I have really no interest in checking food in the field nor do I have a home to have a laboratory setup that's needed for this type of sample preparation. I would just hot ash a sample rather than chemical ash if I was going to measure for cesium specifically in food. I am strictly checking soil samples and as long as the hydrogen is evaporated enough then it shouldn't be attenuated. I'm also putting my samples and detector inside a wooden box with lead lining the outside so it helps clean up the spectrum. If I find something of interest I'll just half the sample until I've separated the sample down to one or a few grams I can weigh on my scale. Although I would lose some radioactivity by hot ashing it, that's the way I would prepare a food sample in my situation
Thank you, Paul; it is good to know the areas you walked have normal background levels. The dry pond is one of the areas where the conservation department dammed up a soybean field to create a shallow waterfowl habitat. I was sort of angry when they created around 1983 it because that was an arrowhead hunting spot (gone forever), but I know the ducks and geese need it. Odd to see it dry. What would be interesting is to see if Schotte Creek has higher levels once it leaves the Lake, like testing the other side of the highway or down at the park where it enters the Dardenne. Hey, I am almost done with a fiction story about a hidden batch of coldwater creek drums in the Lake 33 area, and every time I watch your videos, I think, "Oh dang, this person has to be a character in the book." The "Luke, I am your father" scene was priceless! Maybe the next book
Thank you, Paul; it is good to know the areas you walked have normal background levels. The dry pond is one of the areas where the conservation department dammed up a soybean field to create a shallow waterfowl habitat. I was sort of angry when they created around 1983 it because that was an arrowhead hunting spot (gone forever), but I know the ducks and geese need it. Odd to see it dry. What would be interesting is to see if Schotte Creek has higher levels once it leaves the Lake, like testing the other side of the highway or down at the park where it enters the Dardenne. Hey, I am almost done with a fiction story about a hidden batch of coldwater creek drums in the Lake 33 area, and every time I watch your videos, I think, "Oh dang, this person has to be a character in the book." The "Luke, I am your father" scene was priceless! Maybe the next book
@bruceryba5740 Hello Bruceryba, yes the workers filled me in on the nature of the area and can corroborate what you're saying that it's for waterfowl and other birds and was engineered. What a shame the arrowhead spot is gone now, sorry to hear that. If you search through my videos you will indeed find those areas you suggested and was some of the very first areas I searched including the sport fields that are downstream and in between both Schote and Dardenne creeks. You'll find I walked the entire area of note from the Missouri river, every square foot of the actual Weldon Spring Quarry, Hamburg trail and Hamburg quarry, lost valley trail, Clark trail, around the disposal area, Francis Howell High School, Busch conservation area, lake 10 and more. Take a peek
Good work all around Paul, thought you might like this video and isn't his meter the same as yours.
And Gives an idea what it can take to prepare a sample for more specific analysis.
ruclips.net/video/f7nHndmbl10/видео.htmlsi=gWUEGielTh5IFNly
Thank you sir...This is the typical preparation for food and yes it's the same detector. The only radionuclide this device can measure in food or water is Cesium specifically only. I have really no interest in checking food in the field nor do I have a home to have a laboratory setup that's needed for this type of sample preparation. I would just hot ash a sample rather than chemical ash if I was going to measure for cesium specifically in food. I am strictly checking soil samples and as long as the hydrogen is evaporated enough then it shouldn't be attenuated. I'm also putting my samples and detector inside a wooden box with lead lining the outside so it helps clean up the spectrum. If I find something of interest I'll just half the sample until I've separated the sample down to one or a few grams I can weigh on my scale. Although I would lose some radioactivity by hot ashing it, that's the way I would prepare a food sample in my situation
Thank you, Paul; it is good to know the areas you walked have normal background levels.
The dry pond is one of the areas where the conservation department dammed up a soybean field to create a shallow waterfowl habitat.
I was sort of angry when they created around 1983 it because that was an arrowhead hunting spot (gone forever), but I know the ducks and geese need it. Odd to see it dry.
What would be interesting is to see if Schotte Creek has higher levels once it leaves the Lake, like testing the other side of the highway or down at the park where it enters the Dardenne.
Hey, I am almost done with a fiction story about a hidden batch of coldwater creek drums in the Lake 33 area, and every time I watch your videos, I think, "Oh dang, this person has to be a character in the book."
The "Luke, I am your father" scene was priceless!
Maybe the next book
Thank you, Paul; it is good to know the areas you walked have normal background levels.
The dry pond is one of the areas where the conservation department dammed up a soybean field to create a shallow waterfowl habitat.
I was sort of angry when they created around 1983 it because that was an arrowhead hunting spot (gone forever), but I know the ducks and geese need it. Odd to see it dry.
What would be interesting is to see if Schotte Creek has higher levels once it leaves the Lake, like testing the other side of the highway or down at the park where it enters the Dardenne.
Hey, I am almost done with a fiction story about a hidden batch of coldwater creek drums in the Lake 33 area, and every time I watch your videos, I think, "Oh dang, this person has to be a character in the book."
The "Luke, I am your father" scene was priceless!
Maybe the next book
@bruceryba5740 Hello Bruceryba, yes the workers filled me in on the nature of the area and can corroborate what you're saying that it's for waterfowl and other birds and was engineered. What a shame the arrowhead spot is gone now, sorry to hear that. If you search through my videos you will indeed find those areas you suggested and was some of the very first areas I searched including the sport fields that are downstream and in between both Schote and Dardenne creeks. You'll find I walked the entire area of note from the Missouri river, every square foot of the actual Weldon Spring Quarry, Hamburg trail and Hamburg quarry, lost valley trail, Clark trail, around the disposal area, Francis Howell High School, Busch conservation area, lake 10 and more. Take a peek