ZME Science on MSN2 个月
Plutonium Found in Los Alamos at Levels Comparable to Chernobyl Spark Public Outrage
The Los Alamos National Laboratory, under the direction of the Department of Defense, piped liquid nuclear waste into the ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican7 个月
Watchdog group says LANL data shows widespread plutonium migration
Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande at least as far as Cochiti Lake and could be in the regional aquifer that ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945
The discovery of spontaneous fission in plutonium and the reorganisation of Los Alamos 13. Building the uranium bomb: August 1944 to July 1945 14. Exploring the plutonium implosion weapon: August 1944 ...
Yahoo16 天
Is Acid Canyon clean enough? Depends who you ask
Starting in the 1940s, Acid Canyon was used as a dumping ground for radioactive liquid waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory, including tritium and isotopes of plutonium and uranium.