The Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), a premier nuclear weapons research facility, is unique among America’s national labs in that it is in an urban area. It is in Livermore, California, cheek-by-jowl to homes built across the street. Moreover, Livermore itself is part of San Francisco’s East Bay region. Seven million people, including this writer, [...]
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Last April, the Navajo Nation Council voted 63-19 to ban uranium mining on Navajo land. The vote was in response to efforts by Hydro Resources, Inc., (HRI) to get a license to re-initiate uranium mining in Indian country using a technique called “in situ” mining. Proponents say it’s safer than any other method of uranium [...] Enrichment is a process that uses networks of machine centrifuges, which spin uranium hexafluoride gas into low-enriched uranium for civilian power plants and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons fuel, depending on the duration of the process. National Public Radio In the mid nineteen eighties I found my self visiting a lovely little town in Eastern Washington called Pasco. Part of the “Tri Cities†which includes Richland and Kennewick, the town of Pasco seemed idyllic. Quiet, clean, plenty of parks, inexpensive housing… I liked it. Well, I liked it except for the 586-square-mile Hanford Nuclear [...] TEXAS ranks 10th in number of nuclear warheads deployed, a change from 5th place (and 1,365 warheads) in 1992 and 6th place in 1985 (630 warheads). However, nuclear weapons are stored only at the Pantex Plant of the Department of Energy outside of Amarillo on a temporary basis while they await dismantlement. Though the composition [...] |
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