Nuclear News Roundup Oct 20, 2024
Framatome to supply Hungarian plant with nuclear fuel world-nuclear-news.org
Geiger Readings for Oct 20, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 129 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 129 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear News Roundup Oct 19, 2024
South Bruce votes in favor of hosting Canadian repository world-nuclear-news.org
Geiger Readings for Oct 19, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1437 - General Atomics Is Working On A New Composite Materials For Use In Cladding Nuclear Fuel Rods
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just announced that it has completed preliminary development of four individual performance models in support of its SiGA silicon carbide composite nuclear fuel cladding technology. One of the four individual models utilized to analyze the fiber architecture within SiGA cladding.
Geiger Readings for Oct 18, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 137 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 139 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1436 - Researchers Are Utilizing Antineutrinos To Detect Operating Nuclear Reactors
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK and the University of Hawaii in the US has resulted in the development of a design for an antimatter detector that can measure antineutrinos and create a profile for the nuclear reaction emitting it.
Geiger Readings for Oct 17, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 118 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 121 nanosieverts per hour