May 2017
Geiger Readings for May 24, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 176 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 175 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 279 - Six Suggestions For Ways For U.S. To Put Pressure On North Korea - Part One of Two Parts
Part One of Two Parts:
Geiger Readings for May 23, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 189 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 282 - Russians Developing New Fuel For Fast-Breed Reactor Prototype
The Russians have made a major and long standing commitment to nuclear power. They have been a major exporter of fossil fuels for decades and they would like to also like to become a major exporter of nuclear technology and nuclear fuel. Their government-owned nuclear company, Rosatom is traveling around the world trying to sell Russian reactors and fuel to developing nations.
Geiger Readings for May 22, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for May 21, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for May 20, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 84 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 231 - Cave In At Excavation At The Idaho National Laboratory
I have been blogging lately about the railroad tunnel cave in at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The ceiling of an old railroad tunnel containing highly radioactive railway cars and contaminated waste spontaneously collapsed. The U.S. Department of Energy had been warned for decades that the intense radiation was weakening the structure of the tunnel and that a cave in was inevitable.
Geiger Readings for May 19, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 230 - Holtec International Building Dry Cask Storage Facility For Ukaine
One of the biggest problems with nuclear power is how to dispose of the spent nuclear fuel produced by nuclear power reactors. One solution is to reprocess the fuel to recover uranium and plutonium which can be used to make more nuclear fuel but can also be used to make nuclear weapons. Nuclear fuel reprocessing is complex and dangerous.
Geiger Readings for May 18, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 281 - Financial Problems At Toshiba And Westinghouse Cast Doubt On U.K Moorside Nuclear Power Plant Plant
The Moorside Nuclear Power Station is a proposed power station to be build near Sellafield on the northwest coast of the Cumbrian state of the United Kingdom. Three AP1000 nuclear power reactors are planned to be built by NuGeneration (NuGen), the British subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Toshiba, the Japanese company.