Geiger Readings for Aug 26, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 151 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 140 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 399 - Ex EPA Administrator Suggests That Southern Company Buy Cancelled Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Alabama
The Bellefonte Nuclear Generation Station is located in Hollywood, Alabama and is owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Originally, four reactors were planned. Unit One had reached eighty eight percent completion and Unit Two had reached fifty eight percent completion by 1988 when the TVA board suspended the project. The TVA spent over six billion dollars before work was stopped.
Geiger Readings for Aug 25, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 121 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 398 - Problems for Chinese Nuclear Ambitions
I have blogged about China's ambitions to be a major exporter of nuclear reactors. They have an ambitious construction program for domestic nuclear reactors with twenty two currently under construction and they hope to sell their reactors to other countries.
Geiger Readings for Aug 24, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 128 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 129 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 189 - Cleanup of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant May Be Most Expensive Nuclear Cleanup in U.S. History
I have blogged about the accident that closed the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico before. The WIPP is the geological repository for nuclear waste resulting from the development and manufacture of nuclear weapons for the U.S. arsenal. The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is one of the places where such nuclear weapons are developed.
Geiger Readings for Aug 23, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 102 nanosieverts per hour