Geiger Readings for July 16, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 183 - U.K. Nuclear Decommissing Authority Publishes Estimate For 120 Year Clearup Project
As is the case with all the major nuclear powers, the U.K. has to deal with some sites that have major radioactive pollution left over from their development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) just published a report in which it announced that the estimated cost of decommissioning old nuclear sites in the U.K.
Geiger Readings for July 15, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 113 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 211 - The Russians Are Working On A Combination Air and Space Hypersonic Strategic Bomber
As I have blogged before, nuclear tensions are rising between Russia, NATO and the U.S. There are nuclear non-proliferation and weapons reduction treaties in effect between the major nuclear powers but both the U.S. and Russia are upgrading their nuclear arsenals with charges flying around that they are violating the terms of the treaties.
Geiger Readings for July 14, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 83 nanosieverts per hour
U.K. Ministry Of Defense Polluting Seas Off Scotland
I have blogged before about the careless disposal of nuclear wastes in the world's oceans and seas. Nuclear powers used them like sewers with little thought of the possible environmental impact. A great deal of nuclear research and nuclear weapons development has been conducted in Scotland from the end of World War II up to the present.