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.
Geiger Readings for Feb 06, 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
Geiger Readings for Feb 05, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 118 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Feb 04, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 65 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 455 - Unitec Kingdoms Nuclear Plans Are Not Going Well
The U.K. currently has fifteen operating nuclear power reactors supplying about twenty percent of their electricity. Half of these plants will be permanently shut down and decommissioned by 2025 because they will have reached the end of their licensed lifespan. The U.K.