The federal government wants to do nuclear weapons testing and bio-warfare agent experimentation on Site 300, near the city of Tracy, California. Tracy, 19 miles from Livermore, home of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, is in the northern part of California’s San Joaquin Valley, some of the world’s most fertile farmland. It is a fast-growing [...]
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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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] The world’s largest single nuclear weapons storage facility is a huge underground bunker in New Mexico. Because of a backlog of warheads awaiting dismantlement at the one U.S. facility that is equipped to load and unload nuclear warheads the safe way, Pantex, there are more nuclear weapons stored underground here than any other single place [...] |
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