January 2023
Geiger Readings for Jan 14, 2023
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 885 - Pacific Islands Forum Is Concerned About Japanese Plans To Dump Wastewater From Fukushima Into The Pacific Ocean - Part 2 of 2 Parts
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Nuclear News Roundup Jan 13, 2023
IAEA's Grossi and the Pope discuss nuclear issues world-nuclear-news.org
Geiger Readings for Jan 13, 2023
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 884 - Pacific Islands Forum Is Concerned About Japanese Plans To Dump Wastewater From Fukushima Into The Pacific Ocean - Part 1 of 2 Parts
Part 1 of 2 Parts
Geiger Readings for Jan 12, 2023
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 50 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 91 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1120 - MIT Team Working On A Better Way To Test Components In Operational Nuclear Reactors - Part 2 of 2 Parts
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Geiger Readings for Jan 11, 2023
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 113 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1119 - MIT Team Working On A Better Way To Test Components In Operational Nuclear Reactors - Part 1 of 2 Parts
Part 1 of 2 Parts
A new method has been discovered that could significantly reduce the time and expense of important safety checks in nuclear power reactors. This new approach could save money and increase total power output in the short run. In the long run, it might increase plants’ safe operating lifetimes.
Nuclear News Roundup Jan 10, 2023
Further cost refinements announced for first US SMR plant world-nuclear-news.org
Geiger Readings for Jan 10, 2023
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 91 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Fusion 109 - German Physicists Improve Magnetic Confinement In Their Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator
Physicists in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics recently found a way to minimize a major heat-loss problem plaguing a promising kind of nuclear fusion reactors called a “stellarator”.
Geiger Readings for Jan 09, 2023
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 97 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 125 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for Jan 08, 2022
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 155 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 157 nanosieverts per hour