Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on March 14 , 2013
Ambient office = .098 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .083 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain = .089 microsieverts per hour
Bulk raw peanuts from grocery store = .090 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .117 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .114 microsieverts per hour
The Salem Nuclear Power Plant is located on Artificial Island in the Delaware Bay of New Jersey. It contains two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors which together can generate two thousand two hundred and seventy five megawatts of electricity. Unit One began commercial operation in 1977 and was licensed for forty years of operation. Unit Two began commercial operation in 1981 and was licensed for forty years of operation.
Geiger Counter Readings in Seattle, WA on March 13 , 2013
Ambient office = .097 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .159 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain = .058 microsieverts per hour
Banana from grocery store = .131 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .104 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .063 microsieverts per hour
The Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant is located on the Tennessee River on the north shore of Wheeler Lake in northern Alabama near Decatur and Athens. The plant has three General Electric boiling water reactors that can each generate about one thousand one hundred megawatts. Unit One began operating in 1973, Unit Two in 1974 and Unit Three in 1976. The plant was built and is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). It went into operation in 1974.
The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant is located near Oswego, New York on the southeast shore of Lake Ontario. The plant contains one eight hundred and thirty eight megawatt General Electric boiling water reactor. The reactor was built by the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation and put into operation in 1975 with a forty year license to 2014. Ownership passed to the Power Authority of the State of New York and eventually to Entergy.
The Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station is located eleven miles north of St. Joseph, Michigan on the southeast shore of Lake Michigan. The plant contains two 1000 megawatt Westinghouse four loop pressurized water nuclear reactors. The Unit 1 reactor was put into operation in 1974 and was licensed until 2014.
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is located on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The plant contains two nine hundred megawatt Combustion Engineering Generation II two-loop pressurized water reactors. Unit 1 was put into commercial operation in 1975 with a license to operate until 2014 and Unit 2 was put into operation in 1977 with a license to operate until 2016. Unit 1 was relicensed until 2034 in 2000 and Unit 2 was relicensed until 2036 in 2000.
The Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station is located in Oak Harbor, Ohio on the southwest coast of Lake Erie. It has one nine hundred megawatt pressurized water reactor that was put into operation by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company in 1977 and was licensed to operate until 2017. FirstEnergy Nuclear applied to the NRC for a twenty year license extension in 2010.
