I blogged last summer about the cleanup of radioactive materials left in Magnuson Park in Seattle from when the park was a Naval air base in World War II. The Navy turned the park over to the city of Seattle in 1999 with the assurance that any hazardous material had been removed and it was safe for recreational and low-income housing.
I wrote a recent article about legal action being taken by the Governor and Attorney General of the State of Washington against the United States Department of Energy.
Ambient office = 98 nanosieverts per hour
I have blogged a lot about the aging U.S. nuclear power reactors. Most of them were built decades ago and are nearing or have already passed their initial forty year licenses. There does not seem to be much interest among investors and utilities in building new nuclear power reactors. The U.S. has a guaranteed loan pool of about twenty billion dollars that was created seven years ago.
