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Determining the Source of Stream Toxins with Continuous Monitoring

Determining Stream Toxins with Water Quality and Level Data When researcher Wesley Gerrin gained access to a sediment toxicity lab in the Experimental Forest on the University of Georgia campus, he wanted to investigate an on-campus lake for any potential contamination issues. After his research was completed, he was fortunate enough to have some extra grant funding for the addition of a few samples from any location on campus, so he chose one of the most exciting sites on the University premises: Tanyard Branch. As Wesley said, “We ran the tests, and everything looked good, except for Tanyard Branch.” Tanyard Branch has been one of the most heavily monitored creeks in the Athens-Clarke County area for the last couple of decades due to contamination - it has a long history of abuse beginning in the 1700s. Native Americans long used the area as hunting and fishing grounds, but it was eventually seized by colonists. The people who then settled into the area opened botanical gard...

North Carolina Radiation Protection Acquires Drone for Radiation Measurement

From left, Robert Goldstein of US Nuclear Corp , Lee Cox, Radiation Protection section chief and William Jeffries, Radiation Protection’s nuclear plant emergency response coordinator, adjust radiation detection sensors during the first day of drone training.      June 25, 2018  - After hours of tweaking the unit after assembly, North Carolina Radiation Protection’s drone was finally ready for its first test flight. “Everybody clear?” With a sound like a very large insect, the 45-pound drone took off, stirring up the corn leaves in the field below, culminating three years of work by Lee Cox and staff at the Radiation Protection Section to make this resource a reality.  The section, part of DHHS’ Division of Health Service Regulation, purchased the drone to send into potentially radioactive environments to collect data so human inspectors can remain a safe distance away.  North Carolina will be the first in the nation to use a drone for radiation detection. O...

Is Radioactive Hydrogen in Drinking Water a Cancer Threat?

The EPA plans to reevaluate standards for tritium in water : Add two additional neutrons to the lightest component and hydrogen gets radioactive, procuring the name tritium. Indeed, even before the Three Mile Island mishap in 1979 controllers stressed that this omnipresent side-effect of atomic reactors could represent a danger to human wellbeing. The U.S. Natural Protection Agency (EPA) was just seven years of age when it put the main principles on the books for tritium in 1977. Yet, a ton has occurred in the mediating many years, and it's difficult a more drawn out rundown of atomic mishaps.  The Chernobyl and Fukushima emergencies let free a lot of tritium, however so have an apparently perpetual series of breaks at maturing reactors in the U.S. what's more, somewhere else. Such holes have incited the EPA to report on February 4 intends to return to norms for tritium that has discovered its direction into water—purported tritiated water, or HTO—alongside hazard limits for si...

Aerial Radiation Detection

  In this time of multiple threats to our security:  dirty bomb; cyber; shooters in public places; homemade bombs; misinformation; etc. we feel extremely vulnerable; perhaps more vulnerable than ever before. Arial Radiation Detection With the advent of Drone technology now available to private citizens, the technology previously only held by the military, the opportunity has come to merge Drone Technology with aerial sensors. UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) mounted aerial sensors are typically: thermal, radar, camera, and surveillance, to monitor the environment for threats and for filming, now airborne radiation and chemical threats can be detected. The DroneSensor systems .  Radiation detection  instruments mounted on the DroneRAD and the DroneCHEM for aerial radiation and chemical detection, surveillance, and locating.  Technical Associates , a division of  US Nuclear Corp , provides sensors for both airborne radiation and for the search and locating of ra...

Tritium Monitor

Tritium Air Monitor: High performance portable survey monitor  SENSITIVITY The 400SBDγC is useful for measurements as low as 2 μCi/m3 . The new OTC electrometer, which measures to below 10-16 amperes combines low noise and high zero stability. Unlike other instruments, the 400 series instruments no longer require a front panel manual zero control. Thermally induced zero shifts of the electrometer and associated electronics have been eliminated.  Tritium Air Monitor: Model 400SBDγC RADON INTERFERENCE, NOISE RESPONSE  For an unambiguous measurement of very low tritium a monitor must be able to ignore response to ambient radon. The 400SB series incorporates this capability and therefore produces accurate, fast and drift free measurements to nearly +1 μCi/m3 . TOTAL GAMMA COMPENSATION  Cruciform ionization chamber geometry provides nearly perfect gamma compensation regardless of photon energy, flux gradient or flux direction. Gamma compensati...

US NUCLEAR AND GRAPHETON PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE THERAPY

Los Angeles, CA.  March 17, 2020 – The next chapter in US Nuclear’s (OTC: UCLE) brain-machine interface revolution is treating Parkinson’s Disease.  Over 10 million people live with Parkinson’s Disease worldwide.  Parkinson’s Disease is a degenerative, progressive nervous system disorder that affects nerve cells in deep parts of the brain that control movement and memory.  These nerve cells become impaired and/or die, thereby producing less dopamine thus ultimately causing the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.  These symptoms include: tremors or shaking in your limbs, slowed movement, rigid muscles, impaired balance, coordination, and eventually, profound memory loss and dementia.  Fortunately, advances in neurostimulation therapy, such as those made by Grapheton, have made it possible to treat this terrible disease.  The treatment is called ‘Deep Brain Stimulation’ (DBS) and involves the surgical implantation of electrodes in your brain that send e...

US NUCLEAR JOINS THE BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE REVOLUTION

Los Angeles, CA.  February 10, 2020 - US Nuclear Corp . (OTC: UCLE) recently signed a stock purchase agreement with start-up Grapheton Inc. to acquire a 40% stake in the company.  Similar to Elon Musk’s ‘Neuralink’, Grapheton is developing and manufacturing an advanced new generation of wearable and implantable brain-machine interface devices.  Grapheton’s long-term goal is dedicated specifically to treating injuries and disease such as spinal injuries, pain reduction, Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy, stroke, and possibly Alzheimer’s.  Grapheton already has several pivotal and patented advantages in the field, including:       .  Grapheton’s electrodes utilize a new carbon-based material that doesn’t corrode and can last as long as 40 years or more compared to less than five years from other providers, which is extremely importan...