Geiger Readings for Sept 19, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 74 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Sept 18, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 120 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Sept 17, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 110 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 408 - Turbulent Market For Uranium Production
Most nuclear fission power plants use enriched uranium for fuel. Natural uranium is common but it only has about seven tenths of a percent of U-235 which is the isotope needed for nuclear power reactors. There are a few reactors that burn a combination of uranium and plutonium. There are reactors that can burn nuclear waste as a fuel.
Geiger Readings for Sept 16, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 59 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 227 - Three Reasons Obama Gives That The U.S. Will Not Accept North Korea As A Nuclear State
North Korea has been in the news a lot because they are testing nuclear weapons and threatening other countries with nuclear annihilation. Following N.K.'s fifth recent nuclear test, the U.S. President gave three reasons that the U.S. will never accept N.K. becoming a nuclear armed nation. (This seems a bit late because N.K.