Geiger Readings for Sept 02, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 82 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 403 - Dominion Generation Taken To Court Over Project To Construct A Reactor
Dominion Generation operates the North Anna Generation Station (NAGS) which is located in Louisa County in eastern Virginia. NAGS is majority owned by Dominion Virginia Power Corporation and by the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative with a much smaller share. There are two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors at the station which together produce almost two gigawatts of power.
Geiger Readings for Sept 01, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 91 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 402 - United Kingdom Approach To New Nuclear Power Costly And Inefficient
In 2008, the government of the U.K. stated that nuclear energy needed to be a part of their mix of future sources of energy. However, the government made it very clear that they would not be financing nuclear power and that any new nuclear projects would have to financed entirely by non-governmental investors.
Geiger Readings for Aug 31, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 401 - Westinghouse Guilty Of Sloppy Housekeeping At Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility
The Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility is a factory in Columbia, South Carolina where nuclear fuel rods are manufactured for commercial nuclear power plants. The forty seven year old plant is owned and operated by Westinghouse. The facility occupies over half a million square feet and employs one thousand workers.