Nuclear News Roundup Feb 28, 2016
Ambient office = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 220 - Washington State University Researchers Study Behavior Of Technetium-99
The handling and disposal of nuclear waste is an enormous problem in the U.S.
Geiger Readings for Feb 27, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Feb 26, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 67 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 67 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Feb 25, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 262 - Transatomic Power Corporation Has To Withdraw Exaggerated Claims About Its Liquid Salt Reactor Design
Transatomic Power Corporation is one of the new companies that is pushing a different approach to nuclear power reactors than the conventional light water reactors (LWR). The company was founded in 2011 by two MIT students from the MIT Nuclear Science & Engineering department.