[HN Gopher] Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos s...
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       Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to
       Chornobyl
        
       Author : aguaviva
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-08-26 17:28 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | indrora wrote:
       | The US is going to have to really come to grips with the fallout
       | (heh) of its nuclear weapons programs.
       | 
       | If you've never paid attention to how _abysmally_ the US has
       | handled its nuclear waste management for the weapons programs,
       | check out Rocky Flats and the like. Any time  "whoops we lost
       | track of like, 4 pounds of plutonium" isn't seen as an all out
       | scramble you know you're dealing with the US nuclear weapons
       | program.
       | 
       | The road ahead is going to be long and painful:
       | https://www.kunm.org/public-health-new-mexico/2016-09-06/lan...
       | 
       | Anyone curious about such things in the context of history should
       | check out the work of Martin Pfeiffer:
       | https://deusexatomica.wordpress.com/
        
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