Geiger Readings for Dec 28, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 538 - National Nuclear Security Administration and Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Report On New Nuclear Fuel
Naturally occurring uranium ore contains ninety-nine and a quarter percent uranium-238 which is mildly radioactive. It also contains about three quarters of a percent of uranium-235 which is intensely radioactive and fissile with thermal neutrons.
Geiger Readings for Dec 27, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 133 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Fusion 40 - Three Promising Commercial Approaches To Nuclear Fusion Power
The most exciting subject in energy is the prospect for nuclear fusion. I have occasionally blogged about current work on nuclear fusion. Research has been going on since the 1970s and there is an old joke that nuclear fusion is always forty years away, but things are changing. With fuels cheap and abundant, nuclear fusion holds great promise.
Geiger Readings for Dec 26, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 327 - Airborne Radioactive Contamination At Hanford Demolition Site
It’s Chrismas 2017 and Hanford is the gift that keeps on giving in a morbid way. I live in Washington State where the Hanford Nuclear Reservations, one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world, is located. The U.S. nuclear weapons program produced nuclear materials for warheads at Hanford for decades before being shut down.