Geiger Readings for Mar 25, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 59 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 58 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 259 - Recently Released Classified Soviet Report Details Effects Of Fallout From Nuclear Tests In Kazakhstan
The Soviet Union had a terrible record for nuclear pollution and public transparency. The Kyshtym disaster at Mayak in the nuclear weapons facility in 1957 was hushed up for decades. The disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 was not publicly admitted until ten years after the accident.
Geiger Readings for Mar 24, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 47 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 81 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 258 - Sweden Prepares For Nuclear War
Europe is worried about the threat of Russian aggression. The seizure of the Crimea a few years ago by Russia and the continued fomenting of rebellion in eastern Ukraine are making other countries that border Russia nervous. Russia has been holding major military exercises on its Western border and bragging about how quickly they could take the Baltic states if they wanted to.
Geiger Readings for Mar 23, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 84 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 270 - New Gamma-Ray Scanner Has Been Developed To Detect Radioactive Contamination In Japan
In March of 2011, there was a massive earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan. The quake caused a tsunami that flooded the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on the coast of the Fukushima Prefecture. Three reactors melted down and there was a huge explosion in Unit 3 that destroyed Unit 4. Radioactive materials were ejected into the atmosphere and fallout rained down all over Japan.