Geiger Readings for Jul 12, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 63 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 86 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Jul 11, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 107 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 107 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 268 - Russia Responds To News of Ukraine Cancellation of Nuclear Construction Contracts
I blogged recently (Ukraine Cancelling Contract With Russia for Completion of Two Nuclear Power Reactors ) about Ukraine cancelling contracts with Russia for completion of nuclear reactors three and four at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant.
Geiger Readings for Jul 10, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 267 - New EPR Design Reactor in France Has Unsafe Levels of Carbon in Pressure Vessel Steel
I have blogged recently about the problems that the British are having with their project to build two nuclear reactors for the Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station in Somerset. They have contracted for the construction of French Areva reactors based on the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) design.
Geiger Readings for Jul 09, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 68 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 69 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 135 - Radioactive Waste From U.S. Nuclear Testing is Leaking in the Marshall Islands
Following World War II, the Unites States needed a remote area to test nuclear weapons. The Enewetak Atoll and the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (M.I.) became the main sites of the United States Pacific Proving Grounds. The M.I.are about midway between Australia and Hawaii.