Geiger Readings for May 17, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 76 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 130 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 118 nanosieverts per hour
May 2017
Nuclear Reactors 280 - Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia Is Developing An Improved Coating For Zirconium Nuclear Fuel Rods
Physicists at the Department of General Physics of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Tomsk, Russia are working on improving the coatings on nuclear fuel rods. TPU was founded in 1896 and it was the first technical university established east of the Ural Mountains. TPU currently has twenty two thousand students.
Geiger Readings for May 16, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 84 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 78 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 278 - Underwater Nuclear Detonations Would Not Be An Effective Use Of Nuclear Bombs
It has been suggested that a nuclear warhead could be smuggled into a harbor and detonated to cause a destructive tsunami. There have been reports that Russia may have planted nuclear warheads on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the U.S. There have also been recent stories that claim that Russia is perfecting underwater swift stealth drones that could carry nuclear warheads into U.S.
Geiger Readings for May 15, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for May 14, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 67 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for May 13, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 130 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 86 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 229 - Multiple Warnings About Vulnerability of The Tunnel That Collapsed at Hanford
For the past few days, I have been blogging about the tunnel collapse that happened Tuesday at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington State near the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant (PUREX). As the days pass, more information is being released so I am continuing to blog about the accident.
Geiger Readings for May 12, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 124 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 117 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 228 - Details of Hanford Tunnel Collapse Do Not Add Up
For the past two days I have been posting about the problems at Hanford with respect to the collapse of the soil above a railroad tunnel filled with radioactive railway cars and contaminated equipment. There have been a flurry of stories since the cave-in two days ago and I thought that I would add some additional information to my coverage of the story.
Geiger Readings for May 11, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 138 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 138 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 227 - Tunnel Collapse Emergency At Hanford Was Not Unexpected
Yesterday, I talked about the declaration of a state of emergency at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation by the U.S. Department of Energy because the ground above a railroad tunnel had subsided. The tunnel contained radioactive railroad cars that had been used to carry spent nuclear fuel from Hanford reactors to the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility (PUREX).
Geiger Readings for May 10, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 188 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 170 nanosieverts per hour