Geiger Readings for Dec 22, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office =116 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside =89 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Russsian Mining and Chemical Combine Working On Using Nickel 63 As Power Source For Semiconductor Devices
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Flag of Zheleznogorsk
The Russian Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) was established in 1950 in Russia to produce plutonium for the Soviet Union nuclear arsenal. It is located in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. The company is currently part of the Rosatom group, the national nuclear company of Russia.
Geiger Readings for Dec 21, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 92 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 75 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 75 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 643 - IAEA Conference On The Uses And Challenges of Nuclear Cogeneration
When we talk about commercial nuclear power reactors, it is usually in the context of generating electricity to feed the national grid. Nuclear plants generate heat which is converted to steam to generate the electricity. There are direct uses for that heat that do not require conversion to electricity.
Geiger Readings for Dec 20, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 642 - Some Problems With Thorium As A Nuclear Fuel
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Early experimental thorium reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s
I thought it was time to revisit the idea of using thorium as a fuel for nuclear power reactors. India is interested in thorium fuel because it has a lot of thorium and little uranium.