Bay Area has two EPA radiation detectors

03/15/2011
By Alison Hawkes

The Environmental Protection Agency has a radiation detection network across the U.S. called Radnet, which is continuously monitoring radiation levels. Luckily for the Bay Area there are two — one in downtown San Francisco at Bay Area air district headquarters at Ellis and Van Ness, and one in San Jose. Word has it that the SF detector recently picked up radiation from nuclear weapons testing in North Korea. [ Read more - KTVU San Francisco]

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