Nuclear News Roundup Aug 09, 2017
August 2017
Geiger Readings for Aug 09, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 84 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 294 - North Korea May Be Able To Miniaturize Nuclear Warheads
Donald Trump, the current U.S. President, has been trying to exert pressure on China to curb North Korean nuclear weapons development. China is the main trading partner for N.K. and, since N.K. and China share a border, China definitely has a major stake in developments on the Korean peninsula. China has asked the North Koreans to suspend their missile and nuclear warhead program to little effect.
Geiger Readings for Aug 08, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 143 nanosieverts per hour
Carrot from Central Market = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Tap water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Filter water = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 293 - Russian Fleet Of Nuclear Submarines Is Aging
Both the U.S. and Russia have thousands of nuclear warheads and three types of delivery systems. Both nations have nuclear armed submarines, nuclear bombers and nuclear tipped ICBMs. Both countries are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade their nuclear arsenals and their delivery systems.
Geiger Readings for Aug 07, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 143 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Aug 06, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Aug 05, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 108 nanosieverts per hour
New Technologies Are Being Developed For The Production Of Medical Radioisotopes
Most of my blog posts have to do with nuclear reactors, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear waste. But occasionally I blog on other nuclear related issues such as the production of radioisotopes for medical use. The radioisotope market was over eleven billion dollars in 2016 and is estimated to rise to almost twenty billion dollars by 2021.
Geiger Readings for Aug 04, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 82 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 293 - Melted Fuel May Have Been Located In The Ruins Of The Number 3 Reactor At Fukushima
In March of 2011, there was an earthquake northeast of Japan. It created a tsunami that flooded the Fukushima nuclear power plant on the coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. The tsunami flooded the emergency generators which provided power for the cooling pumps in the reactors. Without the emergency generators, the cooling systems failed and three of the six reactors melted down.
Geiger Readings for Aug 03, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 77 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 72 nanosieverts per hour
National Laboratories Involved With U.S. Nuclear Weapons Research And Development Are Failing To Properly Label Shipments Of Radioactive Materials - Part Two of Two Parts
Part Two of Two Parts (Please read Part One first)