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Wildfire creeps closer to N.M. nuclear weapons laboratory
June 30, 2011
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A helicopter flies over the Los Alamos Laboratory on Wednesday as smoke rises from the Las Conchas fire in Los Alamos, N.M. Scientists are sampling the air, looking for chemicals and radiological materials. / JAE C. HONG/Associated Press
BY P. SOLOMON BANDA AND SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The U.S. government sent a plane equipped with radiation monitors over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory Wednesday as a 110-square-mile wildfire burned at its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific experiments on hold for days.
Lab authorities described the monitoring as a precaution, and they, along with outside experts on nuclear engineering, expressed confidence that the blaze would Read more…
Categories: Fires, New Mexico
Las Conchas, Los Alamos, New Mexico, nuclear waste, radiation, radioactive, wildfires
Over 50,000 TONS Of Deadly Radioactive Fukushima Water
April 11, 2011
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Work to dispose of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is not proceeding smoothly as more time is needed for preparations. Read more…
Categories: radiation
Fukushima, Japan, nuclear disaster, nuclear waste, radiation, radioactive, water
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