A wildfire has advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste as authorities step up efforts to protect the site and monitor the air for radiation.Officials at the premier US nuclear-weapons lab - the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb - gave assurances that dangerous materials were safely stored and capable of withstanding flames from the 95 sq mile fire, which at one point was as close as 50 feet (15 metres) to the grounds.A small patch of land at the laboratory caught fire on Monday before firefighters quickly put it out. Teams were on alert to pounce on any new blazes and spent the day removing brush and low-hanging tree limbs from the lab's perimeter."We are throwing absolutely everything at this that we got," New Mexico Democratic senator Tom Udall said.
A wildfire has advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste as authorities step up efforts to protect the site and monitor the air for radiation.
Officials at the premier US nuclear-weapons lab - the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb - gave assurances that dangerous materials were safely stored and capable of withstanding flames from the 95 sq mile fire, which at one point was as close as 50 feet (15 metres) to the grounds.
A small patch of land at the laboratory caught fire on Monday before firefighters quickly put it out. Teams were on alert to pounce on any new blazes and spent the day removing brush and low-hanging tree limbs from the lab's perimeter.
"We are throwing absolutely everything at this that we got," New Mexico Democratic senator Tom Udall said.
... thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste ...
What could possibly go wrong? They should promote the guy who came up with this one ... upper management material if I ever saw it. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
