Radiation Videos

Field Tests and Demonstrations



BEST/MATRR began our Community Radiation Monitoring Project aka Radiation Detectives in the fall of 2012 with a training session led by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) director, Lou Zeller. Our local group has established 50 monitoring sites surrounding and downwind of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in north Alabama, 28 miles west of Huntsville's city center; and we are increasing monitoring of Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee, which is about 18 miles north of Chattanooga.


Our group is fortunate to have a highly trained specialist in nuclear contamination and medical response, Garry Morgan, as our project director and monitoring trainer. Garry has assembled, utilized and maintained our equipment kits, and has expanded our methods over numerous field testing sessions, incorporating his training and studies of Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and State Radiation Health Control protocols.


Garry Morgan is also the group videographer and has carefully documented many of our monitoring efforts, which may prove helpful to those beginning their own monitoring projects. Garry offers in-the-field training for groups across the country, only charging for expenses, if you want to begin monitoring radiation in your area.


5/8/13

Field Monitoring Browns Ferry - Nov 9, 2012



Radiation Monitoring on November 9, 2012, west of the Browns Ferry Alabama Nuclear Facility on the Tennessee River; monitoring included Lawrence and Morgan Counties. The background reading for this trip was 26 CPM (counts per minute). Mild, sunny weather, light wind from the Northeast but variable at some locations; temperature was 65 degrees F.

A non-profit video by BREDL/BEST/MATRR demonstrating our monitoring of the communities surrounding the TVA Browns Ferry Nuclear Facility.

Windows Media Video (WMV) by Stewart Horn and Garry Morgan for BEST/MATRR; WMV systems license for background music.