Geiger Readings for September 5, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .085 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .114 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .072 microsieverts per hour
Vine ripened tomato from Costco = .107 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .095 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .077 microsieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 45 - China is Building a Lot of Reactors
I have always been fascinated by China. Their culture stretches back thousands of years. They have an amazing record of invention that was largely unknown in the West until the Twentieth Century. They also have a record of making sudden and profound changes in their society. I recently read 1421 by Gavin Menzies in which he describes two of these shifts. Around 1420, the Chinese built and dispatched thousands of ships to explore and map the entire world.
Geiger Readings for September 4, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .088 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .089 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .091 microsieverts per hour
Romaine lettuce from Costco = .106 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .081 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .063 microsieverts per hour
Nuclear Accidents 19 - Whats going on at Fukushima?
There has been a lot of news lately about the mess at Fukushima. They are still not sure exactly where the cores are. Water is being pumped underground to cool the cores that melted into the earth. We are told that hundreds of tons of contaminated groundwater from Fukushima have been flowing into the Pacific daily since the accident. Estimates are that the plume of contaminated water will reach the West Coast of the U.S. within the next year.
Geiger Readings for September 3, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .091 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .106 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .123 microsieverts per hour
Iceberg lettuce from Costco = .094 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .087 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .057 microsieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for September 2, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .070 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .077 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .077 microsieverts per hour
Redleaf lettucefrom Costco = .073 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .083 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .076 microsieverts per hour