Geiger Readings for February 22, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 71 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for February 21, 2014
Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 67 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 118 - What Warning Sign Could Be Used To Protect People from Nuclear Waste for Thousands of Years
I have often mentioned the longevity of nuclear waste. U-235, the isotope that provides power in many nuclear reactors has a half-life of about seven hundred million years. U-238 constitutes most of the naturally occurring uranium and it has a half-life of four billion years. The Pu-239, the isotope which is produced in nuclear reactors and used as fuel or in nuclear weapons, has a half life of over eighty thousand years.
Geiger Readings for February 20, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 65 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 117 - Building 9201-5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Is The Worst of the Deteriorating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Development
Recently I focused on problems being caused by the Soviet Union and Russia dumping radioactive ships and waste into the Barents and Kara Seas near Norway yesterday. In passing, I mentioned that all the major nuclear nations have nuclear weapons development sites that are heavily contaminated and, after decades of work, are still not cleaned up.
Geiger Readings for February 19, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 60 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 65 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 60 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 122 - Some Analysts Have Doubts That Iran Has a Fatwa Against Nuclear Weapons
I have blogged about Iran's nuclear program and the negotiations that are going on with the U.S. and other Western powers. Israel is very concerned that Iran is working on an atomic bomb which the U.S. discounts. The U.S. is willing to allow Iran to have the ability to make a bomb as long as they don't make one. Israel is adamant that they will not allow Iran to have the ability to make a bomb.