Researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health recently conducted a study on metal concentration in U.S. community water systems (CWS) and patterns of inequality. The study revealed that metal concentrations were particularly concentrated in CWSs serving semi-urban, Hispanic communities independent of location or region, highlighting environmental justice concerns.
Ambient office = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 94 nanosieverts per hour
The Russian troops who took and held the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant have moved out and turned the plant back over to the Ukrainians on March 19th. The two hundred Ukrainians who were at the plant when the Russians took over on February 24th, were held hostage for twenty-five days with no relief workers allowed in.
Ambient office = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 128 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 125 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 134 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside =99 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 97 nanosieverts per hour
