September 2013
Geiger Readings for September 7, 2013
Ambient office = .087 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .100 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .066 microsieverts per hour
Red seedles grapes from Costco = .099 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .121 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .104 microsieverts per hour
376 - Nuclear Reactors 47 - New Molten Salt Reactor Design
Molten salt reactors have been explored in the past. They were originally seen as a possible power source for airplanes because they could be small enough for that application. In one type of molten salt reactor, fuel in the form of uranium tetraflouride is mixed with other chemicals and the heat generated by nuclear reactions turns the mixture molten. A graphite core serves the moderator. The molten salt circulates through a heat exchanger to create steam to power turbines.
Geiger Readings for September 6, 2013
Ambient office = .079 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .102 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .100 microsieverts per hour
Packaged ham slice from Costco = .103 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .075 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .058 microsieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 46 - Concerns about China Reactor Building Boom
Yesterday, I posted an article about the nuclear reactor building boom going on in China. They currently have twenty seven reactors operating, twenty eight under construction, fifty more reactor projects scheduled and a hundred more being planned. This is a very ambitious program and I mentioned some concerns that I had about their reactor buildingplans.
Geiger Readings for September 5, 2013
Ambient office = .085 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .114 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .072 microsieverts per hour
Vine ripened tomato from Costco = .107 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .095 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .077 microsieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 45 - China is Building a Lot of Reactors
I have always been fascinated by China. Their culture stretches back thousands of years. They have an amazing record of invention that was largely unknown in the West until the Twentieth Century. They also have a record of making sudden and profound changes in their society. I recently read 1421 by Gavin Menzies in which he describes two of these shifts. Around 1420, the Chinese built and dispatched thousands of ships to explore and map the entire world.
Geiger Readings for September 4, 2013
Ambient office = .088 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .089 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .091 microsieverts per hour
Romaine lettuce from Costco = .106 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .081 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .063 microsieverts per hour
Nuclear Accidents 19 - Whats going on at Fukushima?
There has been a lot of news lately about the mess at Fukushima. They are still not sure exactly where the cores are. Water is being pumped underground to cool the cores that melted into the earth. We are told that hundreds of tons of contaminated groundwater from Fukushima have been flowing into the Pacific daily since the accident. Estimates are that the plume of contaminated water will reach the West Coast of the U.S. within the next year.
Geiger Readings for September 3, 2013
Ambient office = .091 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .106 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .123 microsieverts per hour
Iceberg lettuce from Costco = .094 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .087 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .057 microsieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for September 2, 2013
Ambient office = .070 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .077 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .077 microsieverts per hour
Redleaf lettucefrom Costco = .073 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .083 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .076 microsieverts per hour
Radiation News Roundup for September 1, 2013
Here are ten unbelievable Fukushima headlines. govtslaves.info
Geiger Readings for September 1, 2013
Ambient office = .106 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .116 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .117 microsieverts per hour
Redleaf lettuce from Costco = .078 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .107 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .096 microsieverts per hour
Radiation News Roundup for August 31, 2013
Why Fukushima is worse than you think. globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com
Geiger Readings for August 31, 2013
Ambient office = .084 microsieverts per hour
Ambient outside = .089 microsieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = .100 microsieverts per hour
Carrot from Costco = .113 microsieverts per hour
Tap water = .134 microsieverts per hour
Filtered water = .105 microsieverts per hour