Geiger Readings for Apr 06, 2020
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 130 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Apr 05, 2020
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear News Roundup Apr 04, 2020
Cordova Exelon nuclear plant has worker with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis qctimes.com
Nuclear Plant Transfer to go on Despite Coronavirus Concerns capecod.com
Russia’s nuclear workers isolated onsite as coronavirus spreads bellona.org
Radioactive forest near nuclear plant catches fire dw.com
Geiger Readings for Apr 04, 2020
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 766 - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Is Allowing Some Inspections And Maintenance To Be Delayed At Nuclear Power Plants Because Of COVID-19 Pandemic
My last post had to do with proposals being submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to permit some radioactive waste to be dumped into municipal landfills instead of licensed facilities for the disposal of nuclear waste. As might be expected, these proposals have critics that say it would be a threat to public health to use municipal landfills for that purpose.
Geiger Readings for Apr 03, 2020
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 762 - NRC Receives Proposals To Dump Nuclear Waste Into Municipal Landfills
While the world has been struggling with the Covid-19 epidemic, for some industries, it is business as usual. Polluting industries were recently given a break by the Trump administration to violate regulations about dumping toxic chemical into the air and water. The implication is that this will somehow help with fighting the virus but I fail to see exactly how.