Geiger Readings for February 27, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 120 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 86 nanosieverts per hour
Bartlett pear from Top Foods = 91 nanosieverts per hour
Tap water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Filtered water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Accidents 25 - Accident at Nuclear Waste Repository in New Mexico 2
I recently put up a blog post about the accidental release of radiation at the at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The cause of the radiation release is still under investigation. The repository is a half-mile underground in a ancient deposit of salt and has been in use for fifteen years for the permanent storage of plutonium-contaminated waste generated by the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
Geiger Readings for February 26, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 168 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 46nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 44 nanosieverts per hour
Red onion from Top Foods = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Tap water = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Filtered water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 65 - China Claims that Japan is Developing Nuclear Weapons
I have blogged about Japan and nuclear weapons in the past. Japan is the only country on Earth to have suffered nuclear attacks. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Japan helped to bring World War II to an end in the Pacific. The post-World War II Japanese Constitution forbids the development of nuclear weapons by Japan. There are factions in Japan who would like to see that prohibition struck from the Constitution.
Geiger Readings for February 25, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 131 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 74 nanosieverts per hour
Lemon from Top Foods = 70 nanosieverts per hour
Tap water = 149 nanosieverts per hour
Filtered water = 130 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Accidents 24 - Accident at Nuclear Waste Repository in New Mexico 1
I have been blogging lately about illegal dumping of radioactive materials around the world. I am going to change topics for today's blog. Recently there has been a series of reports about a fire and a "radiation event" at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. This facility is a deep geological repository for waste generated by the manufacture of nuclear weapons for the United States military and is the only transuranic repository in the U.S.