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State Official: Trees and soil in Los Alamos area can have nuclear contamination — “If they get heated and that stuff goes air borne, then we are concerned” (VIDEO)

Published: June 30th, 2011 at 9:11 am ET
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Los Alamos Fire: Perimeter of Nuclear Lab Set Ablaze, ABC News, June 30, 2011:

[...] Along with what’s actually on lab property, there is concern about what’s in the canyons that surround the sprawling complex. Nuclear tests were performed in the canyons dating back to the 1940s; so-called “legacy contaminations.”

“The trees have grown up during that timeframe, and the soil can also be contaminated. If they get heated and that stuff goes air borne, then we are concerned,” Rita Bates of the New Mexico Environment Department said. [...]

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13 comments to State Official: Trees and soil in Los Alamos area can have nuclear contamination — “If they get heated and that stuff goes air borne, then we are concerned” (VIDEO)

  • Whoopie Whoopie
    June 30, 2011 at 9:15 am

    NEWS coming in so fast…no time for comments. TY enenews. You are the BEST!


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  • WindorSolarPlease
    June 30, 2011 at 9:27 am

    Nuclear Power Plants leak and they let radiation steam out. Makes sense that the surrounding area has been contaminated. There should be concern that, it will get airborne.

    We already have, radiation here from Fukushima. There should be concerned on this also. Fukushima isn’t getting any better.

    BTW..Radiation Network has been down


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  • Whoopie Whoopie
    June 30, 2011 at 9:28 am

    Wow! Did you see that? Enenews was down for a second. Scared me!


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  • Rachel
    June 30, 2011 at 9:38 am

    Hi, those people are bright enough to leave it early.
    i wouldn’t wait my gvrt’s safety warning to go away quickly, here in France.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 30, 2011 at 9:44 am

    The public will be getting a minimal about of info about the fire on the lab grounds…
    The public will never hear the full extent of the damage.
    CLASSIFIED


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  • Blondie Blondie
    June 30, 2011 at 10:13 am

    About this “legacy contamination”… apparently more than 18 million cubic feet of radioactive and chemical solid waste since 1943 are buried onsite on the mesas and as for the radioactive liquids? Well, they just let that out pretty much untreated directly into the canyons so no wonder there’s “lagacy contamination” and what a deadly legacy it is!

    I don’t know if this link has been posted before, but it reads like something straight out of a Erin Brockovich movie. It made my head spin in utter disgust and disbelief at what I was reading. Check out their “kick and roll” method of getting rid of toxic waste!

    http://www.ananuclear.org/Portals/0/documents/Water%20Report/waterreportlosalamos.pdf


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    • Joviation
      June 30, 2011 at 10:53 am

      At the end of this PDF are maps of the location of the vaunted Area G disposal area and its proposed expansion. Expanding awright.


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    • fireguyjeff fireguyjeff
      June 30, 2011 at 1:16 pm

      Blondie:
      Thanks so much for that link for the Loas Alamos Water siituation.
      That is the sort of thing EVERY person needs to read. Yet just a minute in to it my stomach started getting queezy!
      Not that I couldn’t second guess all of it, but to have it in text so succinctly was just disturbing.


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      • Blondie Blondie
        June 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm

        Disturbing is a perfect description.

        Knowing how utterly reckless they have been (still are?)in their handling of all that toxic and radioactive waste, it kind of makes you wonder what’s in the ground and surrounding area at Ft Calhoun. If they too have just dumped spent fuel into unlined pits or the likes, and considering the flooding there, then… :( I feel sick even thinking about what could be leaching into the floodwater there. Not to mention what the status of “legacy contamination” is for some of all the other 100′s of nuke plants around the world.

        Sometimes I can’t think about it. It all becomes too overwhelming and I become filled with despair. We have NO solution whatsoever to the long term secure sequestering of nuclear waste and we aren’t ever going to be able clean up all the mess nuclear technology has already wrought upon the planet, either. It’s a wicked genie we can never ever get to go back into the bottle. Ever. :(


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  • gonefission gonefission
    June 30, 2011 at 10:17 am

    i guess this type of radiation is different from the ‘harmless’ radiation coming from Japan or the EPA would be conducting air sample readings from their planes providing concerned People with accurate instant readings they are doing here

    Co@k Su#!Kers


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