Tyler Spano is a nuclear security scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She and her colleagues carried out an examination of previously understudied phases of uranium oxide. (Different crystalline structures are considered phases.) The phases they studied are beta (β-), delta (δ-), epsilon UO3 (ε-UO3) and beta U3O8 (β-U3O8).

Ambient office = 109 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 162 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 165 nanosieverts per hour

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