March 2017
Geiger Readings for Mar 23, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 84 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 270 - New Gamma-Ray Scanner Has Been Developed To Detect Radioactive Contamination In Japan
In March of 2011, there was a massive earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan. The quake caused a tsunami that flooded the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on the coast of the Fukushima Prefecture. Three reactors melted down and there was a huge explosion in Unit 3 that destroyed Unit 4. Radioactive materials were ejected into the atmosphere and fallout rained down all over Japan.
Geiger Readings for Mar 22, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 143 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 124 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 120 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Fusion 30 - New Plasma Control System Under Development At Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
One of the big problems with developing commercial nuclear fusions reactors is the control of the plasma. Turbulence develops in the plasma and causes the plasma to move outside of the intended zone of confinement. It can touch the side of the chamber and destroy the symmetrical confinement needed to create fusion.
Geiger Readings for Mar 21, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 84 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 269 - Strange Corrosion Found At Indian Kakrapar Atomic Power Station
There are two Indian two hundred and twenty watt Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station near the city of Vyara in Gujarat State in India.
Geiger Readings for Mar 20, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 128 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Mar 19, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Mar 18, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Crimini mushroom from Central Market = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Tap water = 130 nanosieverts per hour
Filter water = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Dover sole - Caught in USA = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 268 - Serious Problems At Areva Le Creusot Forge in France
I have mentioned the Le Creusot Forge multiple times in previous posts. It is owned by Areva, a nuclear reactor construction firm that is a subsidiary of the French-owned utility EDF.
Geiger Readings for Mar 17, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 128 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 267 - Texas A & M Researching Porous Nuclear Fuel Pellets
Researchers with the Fuel Cycles and Materials Laboratory within the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University are working on the development of a new approach to creating the fuel pellets that are used in nuclear power reactors. They are creating porous fuel pellets to replace the solid pellets that are now used to fuel reactors.