Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 20, 2013
Ambient office = .090 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .099 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain = .102 microsieverts per hour
Zante currants from local grocery store = .047 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .110 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .087 microsieverts per hour
There is a lot of nuclear waste around the world that was just dumped and forgotten. Some of it is buried and some is in bodies of water. Sometimes there is an incident such as the cancer cluster in the United States in an area when nuclear work was done during the Cold War and then shut down and forgotten. Sometimes people find old records that point to a forgotten dump. And on other occasions, someone stumbles across the old dump.
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 19, 2013
Ambient office = .070 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .085 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain = .126 microsieverts per hour
Asparagus from local grocery store = .067 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .077 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .061 microsieverts per hour
Many people in the United States know that the Nazis performed horrible and often lethal experiments on prisoners. Lesser known are equally horrific experiments carried out by the Japanese during World War II. While we are reluctant to accept that the United States Government would ever experiment on U.S. citizens without their permission or even knowledge, there are known incidents of such experiments.
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 18, 2013
Ambient office = .070 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .108 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain = .103 microsieverts per hour
Iceberg lettuce from local grocery store = .129 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .060 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .053 microsieverts per hour
Following the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in Japan, all their operating nuclear reactors were shut down. There has been a fierce debate and many mass protests as the Japanese government and people try to decide what role nuclear energy should have in supplying electricity to their country. Japan has little in the way of natural fossil fuel resources for energy generation which makes their choice of energy sources much more difficult.
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on April 17, 2013
Ambient office = .071 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .126 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain = .093 microsieverts per hour
Sliced Crimini mushroom from local grocery store = .083 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .088 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .060 microsieverts per hour
