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Wildfire spread into a canyon stretching past dumping ground for ‘low-level’ radioactive waste

Levee intentionally blown up near Ft. Calhoun nuke plant — “No gov’t entity had anything to do with the detonation” said local officials

Mystery: Levee intentionally blown up near Ft. Calhoun nuke plant — “No gov’t entity had anything to do with the detonation”

Press Conference: Journalist asks if contaminated waste was dumped in Bandelier park; Los Alamos official could not answer — Bandelier supervisor says over 50% of area is part of burn

Tokyo tea leaves with 2,700 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium — Picked by elementary school children

Reactors No. 5 and 6 contain 8,000 tons of radioactive water — Will be transferred to megafloat over next few months

Radioactive Tellurium-129m detected in seawater for first time — Short 34 day half-life indicates new leak, TEPCO says no

Corps stopping releases at Big Bend Dam upstream of nuke plants to check for possible erosion — High release rates have caused erosion around spillways

NBC: Photo of barrels with plutonium-contaminated waste inside plastic tent at Los Alamos ‘Area G’ — “When they assure you there’s nothing to worry about I think I’d be somewhat worried” says former DOE official (VIDEO)

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Radioactive waste was dumped in trenches along six acres above town of Los Alamos — Dept. of Energy official says radiation threat is ‘pretty limited’

Kaku on ABC: Ft. Calhoun nuke plant “like Fukushima in slow motion” (VIDEO)

Kaku on ABC: Ft. Calhoun nuke plant “like Fukushima in slow motion” (VIDEO)

Orwellian: “Radiation was being released deliberately” from Fukushima meltdown argued British gov’t

Discussion Thread for July 1 – July 7, 2011

Los Alamos lab director: Waste was deposited outside lab property decades ago, when safety standards were far lower — Areas around facility could be filled with it

Los Alamos lab director: “I could feel the heat of the fire on my face as I watched from the roof of our Emergency Operations Center”

AP: Wildfire pushes into canyon that descends into Los Alamos

Worker burned at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant after pump catches fire

Leaked emails show British gov’t worked with nuke companies on PR campaign to downplay Fukushima — Degree of collusion “truly shocking”

Video from last night: “Sky finally cleared enough to see the flames licking all around the labs” at Los Alamos (VIDEO)

Video from last night: “Sky finally cleared enough to see the flames licking all around the labs” at Los Alamos (VIDEO)

Los Alamos Fire Chief: “We have seen fire behavior we have never seen down here and it’s very aggressive” — Even burn scars are burning and that’s unusual (VIDEO)

NRC concerned about what would happen if a dam fails upstream from Nebraska nuke plants — They’ve had some ‘issues’ corps tells Omaha official

As of this morning flames just two miles away from plutonium-contaminated waste at Los Alamos — Barrels are not well contained says former top official

Senator concerned about massive dams upstream from Nebraska nuke plants — Army Corps alludes to ‘issues’ that are being monitored closely