is with us, do you have any inventories left now? i have dozens of units in my office now. the problem is they re already sold and ready to ship out in the next day or two. jon: percentagewise, what kind of boom in business have you seen since this japan problem began? in a normal year, we might sell 1000 geiger counters, and just in the first five days, after the news broke of the disaster in japan, we sold as many as 500. jon: and most of them going to people on the west coast? i would say about 30 percent are going straight over to japan and another 40 percent to the west coast of the united states, california, washington, and oregon in particular, and then the balance across the rest of the 48 states, a little bit in europe, and a little bit of sales are starting to come to us from the general pacific rim and southeast asia area as well.
whether american interests are in play and make that decision, vote up or down, country for country. neil: thank you, congressman, very much. anyway, here is how scare we are about japan, geiger counters are selling out. radioactive is now the new rage.
main things you are looking for? well, it s very hard to really judge what the radiation doses are going to be based on what we know about the helicopters dropping the water and the cracks in the containment vessel. so what we re really looking for is measurements of radiation doses, both at the edge of the evacuation zone and all the way to tokyo. we really don t have those data yet. and that s really going to tell us what we need to know about the health risks. simply measuring the radiation doses on the ground and there hasn t been enough of those measurements yet. sanjay, we ve seen pictures of japanese officials running a geiger counter over people. you have one with you. is that really effective, does that tell you anything? i don t think this tells you a lot as far as running it over a person s body. it s giving a static image in time saying right here, this
guest: it has been a continuous growth rate since friday evening. neil: i don t much about these geiger counters but they would pick up trace amounts, right? so could people overreact? could they have a slight read and suddenly they are going nuts? guest: if you get a slight read you are talking about breathing in air that has contamination. and radiation that is in jeffed through breathing or eating or drinking that is a different threshhold and even small amounts and weak radiation can be hazardous to 13 human tissues. neil: the incident in japan notwithstanding i am told you would get radiation walking in the city streets where there is
buying their own radiation-detection equipment. gregg jarrett with more. gregg: you are only a click away from accessing realtime amateur radiation monitors. this is a live geiger counter at the website alttokyo.com. it updates a graph with data every 60 seconds. there is also a youstream channel of a geiger counter that attracted 14,000 viewers earlier today. with concerns that a potential plume could head our way, the geiger counters are selling like hotcakes radiation-monitoring devices. at one point, there were so many hits, it crashed for a while and then they said, there are not enough detectors to meet the overwhelming demand. if you good to this next