Geiger Readings for Feb 09, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Chinese and Australian Researchers Develop New Alloy For Molten Salt Reactors
Molten salt reactors are being discussed as an alternative to the popular pressurized water reactors. Although they have been studied since the 1950s, there has been little development work compared to pressurized water reactors. In a molten salt reactor, liquefied fluoride salts are used as a coolant. Sometimes the uranium fuel is mixed with the coolant.
Geiger Readings for Feb 08, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 82 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 215 - Is A Fukushima Reactor Falling Into The Sea
I blogged about Fukushima many times in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster there in March of 2011. For the past few years, Tepco has been working to clean up the mess with radioactive contamination leaking into the Pacific Ocean. I have not blogged much about the situation there recently.
Geiger Readings for Feb 07, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 92 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 214 - Stanford Scientists Discover New Information About The Behavior of Uranium In Soil Around Old Mines
I have often blogged about the problems with disposing of nuclear waste such as spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants and toxic mixes of chemicals left over from the manufacture of nuclear weapons such as the contents of the leaking barrels at the U.S. Hanford Nuclear Reservation.