Geiger Reading for April 24, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745

Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 22, 2013

Ambient office = .099 microsieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 092 microsieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = .067 microsieverts per hour

Dried blueberries from local grocery store = .102 microsieverts per hour

Tap water = .097 microsieverts per hour

Filtered water = .077 microsieverts per hour

Nuclear Reactors 21 - Rivers as Horizontal Cooling Towers 1

            One way that some industries increase profits is by unloading some of their costs onto the environment through pollution. These unloaded costs are referred to as externalities. Factory and fossil fuel power plant pollution coming from the smoke stacks is one of these externalities. There is another type of externality coming from thermoelectric power plants which require huge amounts of cooling water to turn steam back into water as part of the energy generation cycle.

Geiger Readings for April 23, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745

Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 22, 2013

Ambient office = .100 microsieverts per hour

Ambient outside = .131 microsieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = .153 microsieverts per hour

Banana from local grocery store = .086 microsieverts per hour

Tap water = .101 microsieverts per hour

Filtered water = .085 microsieverts per hour

Nuclear Reactors 20 - The Threat of Solar Storms

               I have posted a lot of articles about threats to nuclear reactors. Aside from problems originating within a power plant like fires, explosions and meltdowns, I have talked about hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and other external threats. But it turns out that there are threats to our nuclear reactors that are literally out of this world.

Geiger Readings for April 22, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745

Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 22, 2013

Ambient office = .050 microsieverts per hour

Ambient outside = .077 microsieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = .098 microsieverts per hour

Opal apple from local grocery store = .079 microsieverts per hour

Tap water = .087 microsieverts per hour

Filtered water = .070 microsieverts per hour

Geiger Readings for April 21, 2013

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745

Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 21, 2013

Ambient office = .067 microsieverts per hour

Ambient outside = .097 microsieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = .110 microsieverts per hour

Redleaf lettuce from local grocery store = .117 microsieverts per hour

Tap water = .109 microsieverts per hour

Filtered water = .088 microsieverts per hour

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