January 2016
Geiger Readings for Jan 22, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 78 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 324 - Problems With Replacing All Power Generation In the World With Nuclear Power - Part One of Two Parts
Part One of Two Parts:
Geiger Readings for Jan 21, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 64 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 323 - Greenland Opening Up Kvanefjeld Uranium Deposits
There is a lot of uranium deposits around the world that could be mined for fuel for reactors. However, many of the easiest deposits to access are being mined. With the increasing number of nuclear reactors being constructed around the world, the price of uranium is rising and new ore deposits will be exploited.
Geiger Readings for Jan 20, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 113 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 322 - Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg Question the Restart of Troubled Belgium Reactors
Belgium has restarted a nuclear power reactor at Tihange. Neighboring countries including Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are worried about the safety of the Belgium nuclear reactors. They are upset that Belgium does not seem to be sufficiently concerned about the threat of a nuclear accident at the Tihange power plant.
Geiger Readings for Jan 19, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 128 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 120 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactrors 321 - Chinas Ponders Whether Or Not To Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel
I have blogged before about the Chinese ambitions to expand nuclear power production in China and to export Chinese nuclear power reactors to foreign markets. The air pollution from burning coal has become a serious problem in many cities and it is estimated that forty thousand people die each year as a result of polluted air in China.
Geiger Readings for Jan 18, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Jan 17, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 92 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 81 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Jan 16, 2016
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 137 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 161 - IAEA Is Working On A New Disposal System For Low_level Radiation Sources
I have frequently blogged about the problem of disposal of nuclear waste. Spent nuclear fuel assemblies are filling up the cooling pools at nuclear power plants in the U.S. and other nuclear powered nations. The U.S. intended to have a deep geological repository by the year 2000 but in 2009, the Yucca Mountain repository project was cancelled by the U.S. government and there will not be a U.S.