Geiger Readings for October 11, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 110 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 70 nanosieverts per hour
Carrot from Central Market = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Fusion 13 - Technical Details on ITER
In my last post, I talked about the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER project. A consortium of nations including European Union, India, Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and the United States formally agreed in 2006 to collaborate on the construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor. Billions of dollars and decades of work are dedicated to the project.
Geiger Readings for October 10, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 75 nanosieverts per hour
Banana from QFC = 81 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Fusion 12 - The ITER Nuclear Fusion Project
I have blogged about nuclear fusion projects in the past. There is an old joke that it will take forty year to create a nuclear fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes. The joke part is that this has been true for fifty years. Generating controlled and sustained thermonuclear fusion has proven to be a very difficult task.
Geiger Readings for October 09, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 92 nanosieverts per hour
Banana from QFC = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 172 - European Commission Gives Britain Permission to Subsidize a New Reactor at the Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station
I recently wrote about the more than twelve billion dollars of loan guarantees that the U.S. government is handing out to the nuclear industry for the construction of more reactors. Part of the reason for these guarantees is that investors are very skeptical about nuclear power and some of these projects might not be able to finance themselves without the involvement of the government.