We hired an independent expert, Andrew H. Thatcher, to perform radiation exposure calculations for the Cooks Butte site. Below is an excerpt from his response report along with a link to his full report and a radiofrequency exposure comparison chart.
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From Mr. Thatcher’s response…
I have been asked to respond to the concerns regarding the “radiation” from the Cook’s Butte radio tower project and any possible impact on nearby plants. I will respond in the paragraphs below.
As a third party independent expert I performed calculations regarding the proposed site that includes all of the proposed transmitters for the tower. The basis of my calculations are performed following guidance provided by the FCC and are a worst case analysis and that report will be submitted to the city and become part of the public record. It also means that if I go to a site to perform measurements it is always the case that the actual measurements that I take are less than those that I calculate because of the conservatism build into the calculations. For the Cook’s Butte site I determined that the maximum outdoor exposure rate over 300 times less than the allowed FCC public limit. Read the full response >