Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on May 27, 2013
Ambient office = .114 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .079 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .109 microsieverts per hour
Iceberg lettuce from local grocery store = .101 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .118 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .110 microsieverts per hour
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on May 26, 2013
Ambient office = .064 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .078 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .112 microsieverts per hour
Iceberg lettuce from local grocery store = .084 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .077 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .060 microsieverts per hour
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on May 25, 2013
Ambient office = .086 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .104 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .088 microsieverts per hour
Hass avacado from local grocery store = 079 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .107 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .086 microsieverts per hour
The last couple of posts to this blog featured boosters of nuclear power claiming that with the construction of new reactors in the U.S., the future is bright for nuclear power. I believe that the past year’s worth of posts to this blog detail just how wrong that assessment is. The boosters brush off past nuclear accidents as not really that serious and claim that the new reactors will be even safer and more immune to accidents.
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on May 24, 2013
Ambient office = .127 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .085 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .071 microsieverts per hour
Sliced mushrooms from local grocery store = .104 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .091 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .083 microsieverts per hour
A recent post on the Extreme Tech blog said that nuclear power was our only hope and that opposing it was a huge hypocrisy on the part of environmentalists. The post starts off by talking about the coming huge increase in electricity demand in China and India in the near future and how they are burning coal to generate electricity. The post rightly states that coal is a very dirty fuel that is highly polluting.
