Nuclear Weapons 63 - 1968 U.S. Plan to Nuke North Korea

          The only nuclear bombs have been used during wartime were the two that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in World War II. However, there have been plans by the U.S. and other countries to use nuclear weapons that were not carried out. Few of these plans were widely publicized and are not known by the public because they were classified military secrets. Every now and then, a particular plan surfaces. This blog post is about one such plan.

Radioactive Waste 50 - North Dakota Fracking Sludge

           When we talk about nuclear waste, it is almost always with respect to uranium mining, uranium fuel production, spent nuclear fuel and nuclear laboratories. I have written in the past about the ubiquity of uranium in rocks and soil all over the world. Uranium is forty times more common than silver. It combines with many different minerals in many different forms. We experience "normal background radiation" from the uranium in the ground which varies from place to place.

Geiger Readings for January 25, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 130 nanosieverts per hour
 
Ambient outside = 94 nanosieverts per hour
 
Soil exposed to rain water = 89 nanosieverts per hour
 
Cippolina Onion from Top Foods = 96 nanosieverts per hour
 
Tap water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
 
Filtered water = 78 nanosieverts per hour
 
Alaskan Copper River Salmon = 93 nanosieverts per hour
 

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