From: eaglesondouglas@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 10:03:29 PM UTC+8, Keith Willshaw wrote:   
   > On 27/10/2022 21:39, Douglas Eagleson wrote:   
   >   
   > > Both sides I guess are preparing for a dirty bomb event.   
   > > Doing radiation measurements to find the epicenter   
   > > will be required.   
   > >   
   > > Two methods are available. Maybe do both.   
   > >   
   > > Method one: run around with a gps and radiation meter and radio relay the   
   results   
   > > the command. This method doesn't use onsite data to project the next survey   
   > > data point. So survey path is an after thought.   
   > >   
   > > Method two: Get a topographic map and survey on well defined paths two   
   > > and from land markers such as road intersections, hill tops, dams, and   
   > > compass heading to and from these markers. A gps route can serve   
   > > to mark distance along path.   
   > >   
   > > Either method can be used for a first survey recordation. In general   
   > > the goal is to use onsite data to define contours. Then plan routes   
   > > to point to the epicenter.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > Alternatively you just use the system we used to track the radiation   
   > release after the Chernoby disaster and the post war nuclear tests. A   
   > simple flight downwind of the target collecting data and samples worked   
   > well enough in the 1940's and still does. As someone who was involved   
   > in the nuclear industry from 1972 to 1996 I can say the USAAF (and RAF)   
   > knew more about this stuff in 1956 than you do in 2022.   
   >   
   > BTW recordation is not a word - recording is but plotting is what you   
   > do. If you have GPS you already know the way point locations. The RAF   
   > were plotting fallout plumes in Australia after the Nuclear tests that   
   > took place between 1952 and 1957.   
      
   Finding the detonation site is harder than you think.  DOE choppers   
   would be ideal.  But none are in the war zone now.   
      
   I once uttered incorrectly about the USA Airforce air sample program.   
   I got a managerial "X" in my records.   
      
   I went to a conference given by the inspection leader for the IRAQ   
   review. He had an attitude problem.  Somebody on the team questioned   
   the meaning of high level filtration for a building. Arguing over   
   the meaning of filtration direction gets you a "X" mark.   
      
   He recently admitted doing a failed survey.   
      
   An English Mans involvement was taken as lying to the Queen.   
   Somebody hit him with a  "run you down" security team.   
   He may have committed suicide.   
      
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