lol.. I guess i lose for not having a bigger screen. saw the vid link and not the comments below - watched the series of headlines (lacking complete context) and then the radiation meter part. First off the meter is showing count per minute not sieverts, the actual unit would be microsieverts, and there is a conversion from count to microsieverts. on a plane you'll get from 2 microsieverts to maybe as high as 20 microsieverts (millionths of a sievert) per hour. I posted some plots from my own gear in a prior thread titled "you need a radiation meter". as you vary your location on earth the readings will vary because of differences in teh athmosphere - going over the rockies the planes tend to go higher it seems, because I got my highest reading there (3.5 microsieverts/hr). Those levels wont do anything to you unless you live in them. even then it would take some time - astronauts take more like 20 microsieverts an hour which is quite a bit, but they dont all keel over dead so take that as a reference point.
but I would also say the newspaper headlines about the dead animals are misleading also - none of those stories made any association to radiation as the cause. I bet I could locate stories about animal deaths anywhere over 5 years and pile them up and try to hoax up a conspiracy. When the Comments are disabled you know its all bunk.
I was out in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, and i can say for certain based on my own reading that radiation levels there - especially on the coast (where I was staying) are completely normal on the ground.