Radiation News Roundup for July 24, 2013
Crowd-sourced data provides a high-res view of radiation levels in Japan. technologyreview.com
July 2013
Geiger Readings for July 24, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .118 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .081 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .098 microsieverts per hour
Lemon from local grocery store = .16microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .097 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .075 microsieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 45 - Radiation Danger in Seattles Magnuson - 2nd Meeting - Part 3 of 3
Second Meeting at Magnuson Park about Radioactive Contamination on July 18, 2013 – Part 3 of 3
Geiger Readings for July
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .078 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .126 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .107 microsieverts per hour
Lime from local grocery store = .124 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .113 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .103 microsieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 44 - Radiation Danger in Seattles Magnuson - 2nd Meeting - Part 2 of 3
Second Meeting at Magnuson Park about Radioactive Contamination on July 18, 2013 – Part 2 of 3
Geiger Readings for July 22, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .079 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .065 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .049 microsieverts per hour
Banana from local grocery store = .157 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .090 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .076 microsieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 43 - Radiation Danger in Seattles Magnuson - 2nd Meeting - Part 1 of 3
Second Meeting at Magnuson Park about Radioactive Contamination on July 18, 2013 – Part 1 of 3
Geiger Readings for July 21, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .089 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .095 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .100 microsieverts per hour
Vine ripened tomatoes from local grocery store = .095 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .121 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .105 microsieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for July 20, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .089 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .095 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .100 microsieverts per hour
Romaine lettuce from local grocery store = .095 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .121 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .105 microsieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for July 19, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .147 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .143 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .124 microsieverts per hour
Carrot from local grocery store = .097 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .083 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .079 microsieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 42 - Radiation Danger in Seattles Magnuson - Part 6 - 2nd Meeting scheduled
In Mid-June I posted four blogs about a meeting at the Mountaineer’s Headquarters building at Magnuson Park in Seattle, Washington. The meeting was called by the U.S. Navy, the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Washington State Department of Health. The purpose of the meeting was a presentation of information about radium contamination in a couple of old Naval buildings and soil around drainage systems left over from World War II aircraft repair activities.
Geiger Readings for July 18, 2013
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = .061 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .111 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .089 microsieverts per hour
Celery from local grocery store = .122 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .083 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .068 microsieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 37 - Active Faults Under Japanese Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant
I have written extensively about the problems in Japan that followed the Fukushima disaster. One major problem was the fact that the nuclear industry was being monitored by the same Japanese government agency that promotes industrial development and trade. After Fukushima, a new agency, the Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA), was created to deal with nuclear regulation independently. A new set of much more strict nuclear safety regulation was drawn up.