Geiger Readings for Aug 01, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 113 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 275 - Russian Activist Says That South Africa Should Not Buy Russian Reactors
I have blogged in the past about the aggressive Russia push to market Russian nuclear power reactors to other countries. South Africa has recently been considering the purchase of reactors from Russia.
Geiger Readings for Jul 31, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 75 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 138 - Holtec Applying HI-STORM UMAX To Temporary Storage Of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage In The U.S.
The U.S. has a serious spent nuclear fuel problem. The cooling pools at U.S. nuclear power plants are rapidly filling up with spent nuclear fuel. There are about seventy thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel located at seventy sites in thirty-five states. In 1992, the U.S. government chose Yucca Mountain in Nevada for a permanent spent nuclear fuel geological repository to be in operation by 1999.
Geiger Readings for Jul 30, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 110 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 274 - Prefabrication of Nuclear Plant Components Not Solution to Cost Overruns and Scheduling Delays
The global nuclear power industry is trying hard to convince everyone that nuclear power is a viable option and that safe and economical nuclear power plants can be built. Unfortunately, many nuclear power projects fall behind schedule and incur cost increases that can be multiples of original estimates.