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Thursday, August 23, 2012

New Mexico Plutonium Storage Opposed by Nuclear Watchdogs


New Mexico Plutonium Storage Opposed By Nuclear Watchdogs
Huffington Post
That proposal has raised concerns about whether that waste would take up space needed for disposing of thousands of barrels of low-level radioactive waste that have been sitting for years above ground at a Los Alamos dump. Potential threats from that ...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/new-mexico-plutonium-los-alamos_n_1822698.html

Critics fight New Mexico plutonium plan

San Francisco Chronicle -
FILE--A worker drives an electric cart past air monitoring equipment inside a storage room of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, N.M. , shown in this undated photo. The nuclear waste dump carved out of ancient salt beds under the New Mexico desert ...

Public hearing held on nuke fuel disposal

KRQE - ‎Aug 22, 2012‎
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Anti-nuclear activists are questioning a proposal to ship more plutonium to New Mexico. Several activists lined up Tuesday evening in Los Alamos for the first in a series of public hearings on how best to dispose of surplus plutonium ...


Local leaders seek support for WIPP's plutonium proposal
Carlsbad Current Argus
CARLSBAD -- Local government and community leaders are rallying the community for its support for the possible disposition of up to 6 metric tons of surplus plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a nuclear waste repository east of Carlsbad ...http://www.currentargus.com/ci_21379450/local-leaders-seek-support-wipps-plutonium-proposal
 
 
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