Ambient office = 81 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 116 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 123 nanosieverts per hour

English cuumber from Central Market = 100 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 94 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 80 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 103 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 106 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 110 nanosieverts per hour

Blueberry from Central Market = 114 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 96 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 77 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 155 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 151 nanosieverts per hour

Asparagus from Central Market = 91 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 119 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 109 nanosieverts per hour

Dover Sole from Central = 109 nanosieverts per hour

     Dow and X-energy have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to develop a four-unit Xe-100 high-temperature gas reactor facility at one of Dow’s U.S. Gulf Coast sites.
     In August of 2022, the two companies signed a Letter of Intent which stated that they will work to help Dow advance its carbon emissions reduction goals through the development and deployment of X-energy’s advanced small nuclear reactor (SMR) nuclear technology. Dow will also take a minority equity stake in X-energy.
     The Xe-100 is one of two designs selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) in 2020 to receive eighty million dollars each of initial cost-shared funding. The funds will support the construction of an advanced reactor demonstration plant that can be operational within seven years. Planning is underway for a four-unit Xe-100 plant to be constructed at a site in Washington State.
     X-energy announced that “As a sub-awardee under the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) Cooperative Agreement with X-energy, Dow intends to work with X-energy to install their Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor plant at one of Dow’s US Gulf Coast sites, providing the site with safe, reliable, low-carbon power and steam within this decade.”
     The JDA includes up to fifty million dollars in engineering work. Up to half of which is eligible to be funded through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, and the other half by Dow. The JDA work scope also includes the preparation and submission of a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
     Working with the DoE and subject to its approval, Dow and X-energy expect to finalize the selection of a site in 2023. The two companies intend to preform more ARDP-related work under the JDA as the project progresses. Additionally, they have agreed to develop a framework to jointly license and utilize the technology and lessons learned from the project. This would enable other industrial customers to effectively utilize the Xe-100 industrial low-carbon energy technology.
     Each Xe-100 reactor is engineered to operate as a single eighty megawatt electrical unit. They will be combined in groups of four as an optimal configuration to produce three hundred and twenty megawatts. The reactor can provide baseload power to an electrical grid or support industrial application with two hundred megawatts of thermal output per unit of high pressure, high temperatures steam.
     X-energy said, “The four-reactor Xe-100 nuclear plant will provide a Dow facility with cost-competitive, low-carbon process heat and power to make essential products used by consumers and businesses every day.”
     Dow is working to deliver a thirty percent reduction in its scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. They aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The company is committed to transitioning its sites and operations globally to cleaner power.
     Jim Fitterling is the Dow chairman and CEO. He said, “The utilization of X-energy’s fourth generation nuclear technology will enable Dow to take a major step in reducing our carbon emissions while delivering lower carbon footprint products to our customers and society. The collaboration with X-energy and the DOE will serve as a leading example of how the industrial sector can safely, effectively and affordably decarbonize.”
     Clay Sell is the CEO of X-energy. He said, “X-energy’s collaboration with Dow brings added significance because of the immense opportunity to further reduce emissions in the energy-intensive industrial sector. From the beginning to the end of the supply chain, our technology can supply both power and heat to businesses in most sectors of the economy to help limit their carbon footprint. We are thrilled to work with Dow to deliver a successful project and illustrate the broad, highly flexible applications of X-energy’s proprietary nuclear energy technology.”

Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 127 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 134 nanosieverts per hour

Avocado from Central Market = 81 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 93 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 85 nanosieverts per hour

     One of the most serious problems with nuclear power is the disposal of thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel. There have be a series of proposals for different disposal methods but the two most popular are geological repositories and deep drilling.
     The Deep Geo Ghana Limited is an environmental management company. They have agreed to work with the Ghana Geological Survey Authority (GGSA) towards the construction of a spent nuclear fuel storage facility to support Ghana’s Nuclear Power Program.
     Ghana has intensified efforts to add nuclear power to the country’s energy mix. The target is to build and operate the country’s first nuclear power plant by 2030.
     The Deep Geo and the GGSA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday. The two institutions expressed their commitment to conduct feasibility studies on the construction of a deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel in the country.
     The GGSA is expected to conduct geophysical studies. Three candidate sites are to be located. Out of these three, one will be selected as the preferred site for the facility.
     Link Murray is the Chief Executive Officer of Deep Geo Repository Incorporated, and David Amoah is the Chief Executive Officer of Deep Geo Ghana Limited. They signed the MoU on behalf of Deep Geo. Isaac K. Mwinbelle is the Acting Director General of the GGSA. He signed on behalf of the Authority.
     The deep geological repository will be network of underground tunnels and placement rooms for spent nuclear fuel canisters. The repository is designed to safely contain and isolate spent nuclear fuel over the long term.
    Amoah told the Ghana News Agency that Deep Geo was interested in managing Ghana’s spent nuclear fuel in the future. For this reason, they put necessary arrangements in place ahead of time.
    Amoah said, “By 2030, Ghana should be producing nuclear power. Nuclear power will be generating nuclear waste and we should be thinking on how to store that waste. That is why we want to go ahead and do this study and possibly construct the repository.”
     Amoah went on to say that the facility to store spent nuclear fuel required a location with stable geology. He added that the signing of the MoU was the first of many activities to be undertaken.
    Murray said that Deep Geo had an excellent track record of assisting Canada to construct its Deep Geological Repository. He offered assurance that the firm was willing to support Ghana to effectively manage its spent nuclear fuel in the future.
     Mwinbelle said that the GGSA was committed to providing the necessary technical assistance to Deep Geo to help achieve their desired goals. He also said that “This is in line with our mandate, and we are ready to assist you in fulfilling this dream in the interest of national development.”
     In August of last year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo approve the inclusions of nuclear technology into Ghana’s power generation mix.
     This move is consistent with the global collective commitment to the sustainable availability of power, the peaceful exploitation of nuclear energy to enhance rapid industrialization and to propel economic growth.