February 2016
Geiger Readings for Feb 27, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 169 - Cancer Cluster Among Workers At The Portmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio
Yesterday, I blogged about illegal disposal of radioactive waste from fracking at a landfill in Kentucky. Today I am going to blog about another problem with nuclear garbage.
Geiger Readings for Feb 26, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 122 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 168 - Illegal Dumping of Fracking Waste in Blue Ridge Landfill in Kentucky
Radioactive waste is a major global problem. It can be left over from various stages of the mining and refining of uranium. It can be a by-product of the creation of weapons grade nuclear materials. Radioactive materials are used in medicine and industry and must be disposed. Nuclear power reactors generate huge quantities of spent nuclear fuel which must be dealt with.
Geiger Readings for Feb 25, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 166 - Legal Conflict Over The Clean Power Plan Confuses Nuclear Industry
In August of 2015, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency announced the Clear Power Plan (CPP). They said that this new plan was intended to reduce carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by thirty two percent by 2030 in order to mitigate climate change.
Geiger Readings for Feb 24, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 60 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 65 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 81 nanosieverts per hour
Volcanos, Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Tests
I recently posted a list of problems with nuclear power.
Geiger Readings for Feb 23, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 167 - Australia Developing Synroc (Synthetic Rock ) Process For Radioactive Waste Disposal
I have posted about the process of vitrification in the past. Radioactive waste is mixed with sand and other chemicals and then the mixture is subjected to high temperature that melts it. After it solidifies, a glass cylinder is the result. This can be buried in a geological repository.
Geiger Readings for Feb 22, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Feb 21, 2015
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour