Nuclear Medicine 1 - Introduction
The Washington State government has established rules for dealing with radioactive materials. These rules are in the Washington Administrative Code (WAS) which contains regulations issued by the Executive Branch of the Washington State government as instructed by enabling statutes. In general states must conform to national standards laid down by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) which licenses companies to handle radioactive materials.
There is a Google interactive map for monitoring the release radioactivity from accidents at nuclear power plants and other nuclear faclities.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a radiation monitoring website called RadNet. From the homepage:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a radiation monitoring website called RadNet. From the homepage:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a radiation monitoring website called RadNet. From the homepage:
The menu at the top of the GeigerGraph for Networks includes menus for files, user setup, view, network and help.
GeigerGraph for Networks is a program created by a company called Mineralab. It is distributed through a subsidiary called GeigerCounters.com. GeigerGraph is used to create a network of automatic monitoring stations on a volunteer basis for reading and uploading counts per minutes Geiger counter readings. The main focus is on the continental United States but there are additional monitoring maps for Alaska and Hawaii, Europe, Japan and Australia.
Continuing concern over radiation exposure sparked by the Fukushima disaster has led to a number of programs to monitor radiation across the United States. One of these programs is called the Radiation Network at www.radiationnetwork.com. The home page displays a map of the continental United States.