Geiger Readings for September 4, 2014

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
 
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
 
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
 
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
 
Crimini Mushrooms from Top Foods = 108 nanosieverts per hour
 
Tap water = 116 nanosieverts per hour
 
Filtered water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
 

Nuclear Accidents 12 - Wild Boars In Germany Are Still Being Contaminated by Chernobyl Fallout

         I have blogged several times about the disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. There was a power surge at reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The operators tried an emergency shutdown which triggered a much bigger power surge which, in turn, ruptured a reactor vessel and caused a series of steam explosions. The graphite moderator rods were exposed to air and ignited.

Radioactive Waste 93 - U.S. Department of Energy Exploring Use of Rail Cars for Transporting Spent Nuclear Fuel

         I have often blogged about the problems with spent nuclear fuel in the United States. Estimates are that all the spent nuclear fuel pools in the U.S. will be full in five years unless the spent fuel can be stored elsewhere. There are about fifty thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel in those spent nuclear fuel pools. With no permanent geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, the only alternative at the moment is to build containers and store the spent fuel on site at the reactor.

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