Geiger Readings for January 11, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 118 nanosieverts per hour
 
Ambient outside = 110 nanosieverts per hour
 
Soil exposed to rain water = 113 nanosieverts per hour
 
Redleaf lettuce from Top Foods = 110 nanosieverts per hour
 
Tap water = 78 nanosieverts per hour
 
Filtered water = 65 nanosieverts per hour
 
Alaskan Copper River Salmon = 88 nanosieverts per hour

Nuclear Fusion 7 - History 5

             In 1979, the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated the radio frequency quadrupole accelerator (RFQ). The RFQ is a linear accelerator with low beam energies between fifty thousand electron volts and three million electron volts which accelerates and focuses a stream of charged particles. The U.S. Argonne National Laboratory and Hughes Research Laboratories demonstrate an ion source utilizing a xenon beam at one and one half million electron volts. A report to the U.S.

Nuclear Fusion 6 - History 4

             In 1974, some confusing results from the British ZETA research device from 1958 were re-examined and it was concluded that something interesting was revealed. What emerged from the new look at the ZETA results was something called a reverse zeta pinch (rzp) effect. In this type of magnetic confinement, the toroidal magnetic field and the poloidal field are equal strength while in a tokamak the toroidal field is much stronger.

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