Nuclear News Roundup Sep 13, 2024
Russia pressing Central Asian states to embrace nuclear power intellinews.com
Russia pressing Central Asian states to embrace nuclear power intellinews.com
Ambient office = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
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The U.S. currently gets about twenty percent of its power from nuclear fission power reactors. Inside the U.S. Energy Department, there is high interest to increase that percentage in the coming years because nuclear energy is reliable and doesn’t produce as much climate pollution as fossil fuels.
Ambient office = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 103 nanosieverts per hour
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Inside a highly classified facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee workers are turning old, unexploded nuclear warheads into fuel that will power cities. This is the same facility that enriched uranium for the first atomic bomb in the era of the Manhattan Project.
Ambient office = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 113 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 118 nanosieverts per hour
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