Geiger Readings for February 15, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 90 nanosieverts per hour
 
Ambient outside = 123 nanosieverts per hour
 
Soil exposed to rain water = 119 nanosieverts per hour
 
Yellow bell pepper from Top Foods = 720 nanosieverts per hour
 
Tap water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
 
Filtered water = 77 nanosieverts per hour
 
Alaskan Copper River Salmon = 88 nanosieverts per hour

Radioactive Waste 59 - Illegal Nulcear Waste Dumping in Russia 2

           Today, I am going to continue blogging about illegal dumping of wastes in Russia. There is a Russian Naval base at Murmansk on the Arctic Sea. Dumping nuclear waste into the world's oceans has been banned by international treaty for over thirty years. It has been know for decades that the Soviet Union and Russia have been illegally dumping nuclear materials into the Arctic Sea.

Radioactive Waste 58 - Illegal Nuclear Waste Dumping in Russia 1

          Today, I am going to focus on illegal nuclear waste dumping inside Russia. For years, Rosatom, the government owned nuclear company in Russia, has denied that the nuclear waste reprocessing facility Mayak in the Urals is continuing to illegally dump byproducts of reprocessing into the Techa river, an important source of water for thousands of homes in the area.

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