Geiger Readings for Apr 12, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 553 - India Cancels Plans For Fifty Seven Nuclear Power Reactors
India has very serious shortages of electricity. About two hundred million people out of India’s one billion three hundred million citizens do not have any access to electricity. Much of the rest of the country does not have reliable sources of electricity. In July of 2012, India experienced the biggest electrical blackout in world history.
Geiger Readings for Apr 11, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 124 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 335 - Los Alamos National Laboratory Working On Using Muons To Monitor Contents Of Dry Casks
Most nuclear reactors are powered by pellets of uranium or uranium mixed with plutonium. The pellets are inserted into long thin fuel rods which are then bundled together into fuel assemblies. When fuel assemblies are removed from a reactor, they are placed in a cooling pool for five years to allow heat and radioactivity to dissipate.
Geiger Readings for Apr 10, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 162 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 155 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 552 - MIT Researchers Find That Thin Layer Of Aluminum Oxide Forms Self-Healing Coating For Nuclear Fuel Rods
Nuclear power reactors are fueled with fuel rod assemblies. The fuel rods in the assemblies are long and thin. They are filled with pellets of enriched uranium or a mixture of uranium and plutonium. The rods are coated with an alloy of zirconium.
Geiger Readings for Apr 09, 2018
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 130 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 101 nanosieverts per hour