The New Mexico wildfire that has turned America’s heads towards the Los Alamos nuke plant is inching closer and closer to the laboratory, where the Associate Press says it is now a few miles from a dumpsite. If the fire extends another 3.5 miles, it could overtake an area where 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated [...]
Tag: nuclear safety
June 30, 2011
June 29, 2011
NM Blaze Threatening Nuclear Lab, Sparking Fires
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Firefighters worked through the night hoping to put out spot fires erupting ahead of a wildfire in the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory. “That’s the biggest threat we have right now to homes in the community,” Deputy Los Alamos County Fire [...]
June 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Japan’s Reactors Have Gone Chernobyl…
Japan’s nuclear watchdog has decided has raised the severity level of the crisis at its stricken nuclear power plant to 7 – the highest level and equal to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the country’s nuclear safety watchdog, raised the severity level of the [...]