February 2015
Geiger Readings for February 20, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 65 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 117 - Building 9201-5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Is The Worst of the Deteriorating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Development
Recently I focused on problems being caused by the Soviet Union and Russia dumping radioactive ships and waste into the Barents and Kara Seas near Norway yesterday. In passing, I mentioned that all the major nuclear nations have nuclear weapons development sites that are heavily contaminated and, after decades of work, are still not cleaned up.
Geiger Readings for February 19, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 60 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 65 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 60 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 122 - Some Analysts Have Doubts That Iran Has a Fatwa Against Nuclear Weapons
I have blogged about Iran's nuclear program and the negotiations that are going on with the U.S. and other Western powers. Israel is very concerned that Iran is working on an atomic bomb which the U.S. discounts. The U.S. is willing to allow Iran to have the ability to make a bomb as long as they don't make one. Israel is adamant that they will not allow Iran to have the ability to make a bomb.
Geiger Readings for February 18, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 86 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste Waste 116 - Russian Nuclear Disposal Sites in Barents and Kara Seas Threatens Norway
I have blogged before about the mess that the Soviet military left in the Barents and Kara Seas off their north coast. They just dumped nuclear components, reactors, ships and submarines into the Seas. Now Norway, which borders on that area of what used to be the Soviet Union are worried about this toxic nuclear legacy.
Geiger Readings for February 17, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 69 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 212 - Austria and the United Kingdom Are Fighting About New U.K. Reactor.
I have blogged about the new nuclear reactor that the British intend to build at their Hinkley Point power plant. I just recently blogged about Austria’s campaign to end the use of nuclear power in the European Union. Today, these two subjects collide.
Geiger Readings for February 16, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 71 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 91 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for February 15, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 159 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 149 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for February 14, 2014
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 121 - Saudi Arabia May Obtain Nuclear Warheads From Pakistan
After Pakistan developed its nuclear weapons, they secretly shared that knowledge with other countries. One of their chief nuclear scientists, Abdul Qadeer Khan, was implicated in this nuclear proliferations activity by the United States. In 2004, he was brought before a Pakistani tribunal to account for his activities. He was placed under house arrest but in 2009, he was freed by a judge.