Ambient office = .080 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .113 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .065 microsieverts per hour
Frozen farmed salmon from Costco = .094 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .088 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .083 microsieverts per hour
Ambient office = .054 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .096 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .087 microsieverts per hour
Dried blueberries from Costco = .088 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .089 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .076 microsieverts per hour
Yesterday, I blogged about a new report on U.S. reactor security by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas. In the report, the authors said that they were concerned that the U.S. reactors and other nuclear facilities were not secure against a major terrorist attack on the scale of 911. Reactor security is currently based on something called “design basis threats.(DBT)” Today, I am going to dig into what that means.
Ambient office = .095 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .143 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .094 microsieverts per hour
Zante currants from local grocery store = .125 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .109 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .089 microsieverts per hour
There has always been a close connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. A great deal of the motivation for launching the commercial nuclear power industry was to provide more support for the nuclear weapons programs in the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. As other nations developed their own nuclear weapons programs, a global movement arose to oppose the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Ambient office = .112 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .137 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .123 microsieverts per hour
Mango from local grocery store = .103 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .081 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .066 microsieverts per hour
I have expressed concerns about the way that the United States Department of Energy has handled accidents and other problems involving nuclear materials. Past blogs have detailed their lack of transparency, dishonesty, incompetence and violations of regulations and laws at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the State of Washington. Today I am going to talk about the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
