Geiger Readings for Jun 17, 2017

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 109 nanosieverts per hour
 
Ambient outside = 166 nanosieverts per hour
 
Soil exposed to rain water = 169 nanosieverts per hour
 
Avocado from Central Market = 91 nanosieverts per hour
 
Tap water = 107 nanosieverts per hour
 
Filter water = 100 nanosieverts per hour 
 
Dover sole - Caught in USA = 100 nanosieverts per hour
 

Nuclear Reactors 292 - Nuclear Regulatory Commission In Danger Of Closing If Chairwoman Not Confirmed by June 30th

       The job of the NRC is to formulates policies and regulations governing nuclear reactor and materials safety, issues orders to licensees, and adjudicates legal matters brought before it. This is a critical regulatory agency that has important duties with respect to the nuclear industry in the U.S. and usually carries out those duties properly.  

Nuclear Reactrors 291 - TEPCO Preparing Another Robot To Check The Ruins Of Unit 3 At Fukushima

    In March of 2011, there was an earthquake northeast of Japan. The resulting tsunami flooded the emergency generators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant on the Japanese coast. Three of the nuclear reactors at the plant suffered catastrophic meltdowns and radioactive materials were released into the atmosphere. Japan immediately shut down all their nuclear power reactors.

Nuclear Reactors 290 - NRC Grants Extensions For Repairs At Palo Verde Generating Station

       The Palo Verde Generating Station (PVGS) is a nuclear power plant that is near Tonopah, Arizona. It is only forty five miles from downtown Phoenix. There are three pressurized water reactors at the PVGS that each generate fourteen hundred megawatts.  This plant generates about thirty five percent of the electricity that is produced in Arizona.

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