January 2024

     A device which uses energy from the decay of a radioactive isotope to generate electricity is referred to as an atomic battery, nuclear battery, radioisotope battery or radioisotope generator. They are not nuclear reactors because although they generate electricity from nuclear energy, they differ in that they do not use a chain reaction.

Ambient office = 104 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 94 nanosieverts per hour

Air Force conducts second Sentinel static fire test afnwc.af.mil

     Critics are labeling a new French energy bill that favors the further development of nuclear power as a step backward. The new bill avoids setting expected targets for solar and wind power and other renewals.

Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 112 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 114 nanosieverts per hour

Onagawa 2 restart delayed by 'several months' world-nuclear-news.org

     Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has decided to lift an administrative order imposed on Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in 2021 that prohibited the company from moving nuclear fuel or loading it into reactors at the seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant.

Ambient office = 115 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 153 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 148 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 127 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 94 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 93 nanosieverts per hour