March 2014

Nuclear Reactors 104 - Washington State Bill 5991 to Consider New Reactors for State 3

          I have been blogging lately about Washington State's SSB 5591. This is a bill that calls for Washington Legislature to consider the possibility of building additional nuclear reactors to supply energy for Washington State residents. Today I am going to discuss the senate debate over the bill that took place on February 12 of this year.

Geiger Readings for March 1, 2014

Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 78 nanosieverts per hour
 
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
 
Soil exposed to rain water = 84 nanosieverts per hour
 
Orange bell pepper from Top Foods = 86 nanosieverts per hour
 
Tap water = 118 nanosieverts per hour
 
Filtered water = 106 nanosieverts per hour
 
Wild Salmon - Previously frozen = 125 nanosieverts per hour

Nuclear Reactors 103 - Washington State Bill 5991 to Consider New Reactors for State 2

          Yesterday I started blogging about SSB 5991, a new bill in the Washington State Legislature that is calling for consideration of nuclear power for future energy generation in the state. I called into question the opening assumptions of the bill that nuclear power is safe, reliable, cost-effective and carbon free. Today I am going to dig deeper into the text of the bill.

Nuclear Reactors 102 - Washington State Bill 5991 to Consider New Reactors for State 1

          I have blogged about the nuclear industry around the planet. I have also blogged about problems at Hanford in Washington State. Today I am going to talk about a new initiative in the State of Washington. A bill is working its way through the Washington State Legislature that calls for the consideration of building new nuclear reactors to provide future energy for the state's electrical grid.

Nuclear Accidents 25 - Accident at Nuclear Waste Repository in New Mexico 2

           I recently put up a blog post about the accidental release of radiation at the at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The cause of the radiation release is still under investigation. The repository is a half-mile underground in a ancient deposit of salt and has been in use for fifteen years for the permanent storage of plutonium-contaminated waste generated by the U.S. nuclear weapons program.

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