Nuclear Weapons 175 - Pakistan Almost Attacked India with Nuclear Weapons in 1999
I have posted several blogs about the decades long hostility between Pakistan and India.
Geiger Readings for Dec 03, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 161 - Finland Leads the World in the Creation of a Deep Geological Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel
Countries that use nuclear power to generate electricity store spent nuclear fuel in cooling pools, dry casks above ground or in vaults lined with concrete and steel.
Geiger Readings for Dec 02, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 160 - States Are Unable to Properly Regulate Radioactive Waste from Oil and Gas Drilling and Fracking
I have blogged before about problems with disposal of radioactive filters that look like big socks used to trap radioactive particles coming out of fracking well operation.
Geiger Readings for Dec 01, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 63 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 304 - Dominion Resources Leads Effort To Extend Licenses of U.S. Power Reactors to 80 years
Most of the 99 operating nuclear power plants in the U.S. were built in the 1970s. They were originally licensed by the NRC to operate for forty years. Having reached the end of their original intended lifespan, most of the aging power reactors have been relicensed for another twenty years. The wisdom of giving these aging reactors another twenty years of operation has been questioned.