Geiger Readings for July 21, 2014
My Geiger counter is in the shop for maintenance.
Geiger Readings for July 20, 2014
My Geiger counter is in the shop for maintenance.
Geiger Readings for July 19, 2014
My Geiger counter is in the shop for maintenance.
Nuclear Weapons 84 - India - Pakistan - Warheads and Water
I have blogged about Pakistan and India before in the context of their hostilities and the danger that they might engage in an exchange of nuclear warheads. They have around a hundred warheads each. It has been estimated that the detonation of only one hundred warheads might be sufficient to trigger a nuclear winter that would end human civilization. They have gone to war three times since India and Pakistan were created in 1949.
Geiger Readings for July 18, 2014
My Geiger counter is in the shop for maintenance.
Radioactive Waste 86 - Update on the Recent Accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 9
Time for another update on the evolving situation at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Back in February, something happened in this transuranic geological repository in a salt deposit. Plutonium and americium were detected outside of the plant. When it became possible to examine the big underground room where drums of waste from U.S. nuclear weapons production, it was found that a drum had ruptured and allowed its contents to escape.