It turns out that Denver and much of Colorado has background radiation higher than in many other places. Partly it's the altitude. There's less atmosphere shielding Colorado from cosmic rays.

Government researchers have written an Android app that lets your phone's camera act as a gamma radiation detector. We're not talking about the same quality of detection as a commercial detector ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you see a helicopter flying low in DC airspace on Tuesday, don't worry: the Department of Energy is just measuring naturally occurring background radiation, the agency said ...

The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration will be using a twin-engine Bell 412 helicopter equipped with radiation-sensing technology to “measure expected ...

The helicopter's pilot is flying in a grid pattern at an altitude of about 150 feet, and moving around 80 mph, measuring normal background radiation levels ahead of the Feb. 13 game and its ...

The amount doubles with every 6,000 feet of altitude. Day asks: ... (For scale, a person at ground level gets about 2.4 mSv of natural background radiation a year.) ...

But flight attendants and pilots also face an unseen menace on the job: Cosmic radiation. You can't see it or feel them, but at any given moment, tens of thousands of highly charged particles are ...

The craft flew at low altitude the entire time, dipping below 100 feet on several occasions, according to FlightAware. Flight path for N412DE on the morning of October 8, 2021.

So while you're in the plane that's flying cross-country, you're receiving between 2,000 and 5,000 times as much cosmic radiation as you were subjectedto in order to board the plane.

Beginning Dec. 2 through Dec. 13, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over downtown. The helicopters will ...

Low-flying helicopters will be scanning New Orleans next week ahead of Super Bowl LIX looking for radioactive hot spots. The U.S. Dept. of Energy says it is a routine part of security prior to ...