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
Nuclear Weapons 222 - Australia Opposed UN Plan To Ban Nuclear Weapons
I grew up during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. We lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation and, as a child, I even had nightmares about it. At the height of the arms race during the Cold War, both the U.S. and the S.U. had tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and bombs. There were several times when the fate of the human race was in the hands of one man.
Geiger Readings for Aug 22, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 67 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 139 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Aug 21, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 120 nanosieverts per hour