According to a post at the department of public health, you may. The article indicates that a helicopter will be working a grid at an altitude of 300ft to map background radiation levels around Seattle and certain outlying areas. Interesting approach to this issue, wouldn't it be more meaningful to merely map the background radiation at the existing monitoring sites? I'm highly doubtful that in the event of another fukushima-like incident that the health department has the bandwidth or equipment to deploy to specific neighborhoods to give real-time data reports of how the city is fairing during the event. This smells of witch hunt and unnecessarily burned (at the tune of somewhere around $5/gal and 30++gal per hour) avgas to me.
Yeah, funny they do this when they haven't had the radiation detectors working at the dept of health since May.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.doh.wa.gov/topics/japan/monitor-history.htm
My favorite part of the article is:
"If levels of radioactivity are high enough to pose any health concern, the source will be investigated."
Investigated is different than being disclosed.
You're right about the waste of money but it comes from a grant from homeland security. With the cost of this they could have hired a few more TSA pedophiles to look at body scans of children