September 2017
Geiger Readings for Sep 22, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 141 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 145 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 305 - Generation IV Nuclear Reactors - Part 2 of 2 Parts
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Geiger Readings for Sep 21, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 141 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 145 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Sep 20, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 140 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 303 - NuScale Researches Alternative Uses For Its Small Modular Reactors
Almost all of my posts about nuclear reactors have been about nuclear power reactors that convert heat to electricity for industrial, municipal and home use as baseload supply for large electrical grids. There are other uses for nuclear power reactors. NuScale is working on small modular reactors with output levels of less than three hundred megawatts.
Geiger Readings for Sep 19, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 120 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 167 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 167 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 302 - Finland Having Problems Completing It's Two New Nuclear Power Reactors
Finland currently has four operational nuclear power reactors which together supply about thirty percent of their electricity. They are in the process of building three more nuclear reactors, one for experiments and two for power generation. They hope to up the share of power generated by nuclear energy to about sixty percent.
Geiger Readings for Sep 18, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 143 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 146 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Sep 17, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 75 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Sep 16, 2017
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 107 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water =122 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 307 - In 1966, The Soviet Union Used A Nuclear Bomb To Extinguish A Natual Gas Fire
I have written before about the use of nuclear bombs for civilian purposes. The U.S. and the Soviet Union explored various possibilities decades ago but ideas such as using nuclear explosive to dig canals or to frack for natural gas were abandoned. The Soviet Union was always more ambitious than the U.S. with respect to possible civilian uses for nuclear explosives.