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Fire near Los Alamos lab

Postby FirstClassSkeptic » 27 Jun 2011 16:31

"All laboratory facilities will be closed for all activities and nonessential employees are directed to remain off site, Employees are considered nonessential and should not report to work unless specifically directed by their line managers."


http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/27/new.mexico.los.alamos/
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Re: Fire near Los Alamos lab

Postby NUKELIES » 29 Jun 2011 18:44

from http://amarillo.com/stories/2000/05/16/usn_fires3.shtml
Manhattan Project buildings burn
Posted: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
JOHN MacDONALD
The Associated Press
LOS ALAMOS - The cluster of sagging, wooden buildings where U.S. scientists created the world's first atomic bomb were only recently spared the ravages of time. Now almost all of them have been destroyed by fire.

Five of the six buildings that were home to World War II's top-secret Manhattan Project were reduced to a pile of rubble last week by the devastating Cerro Grande blaze that also burned more than 200 homes.


and from http://homepost.kpbs.org/tag/manhattan-project/
Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of only two labs in the United States charged with designing nuclear weapons – the other being Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California. Los Alamos is probably best known as the site where the Manhattan Project was born, and where scientists created the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII.


Are they burning the evidence? Wouldn't a nuclear bomb be easier?
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Re: Fire near Los Alamos lab

Postby FirstClassSkeptic » 30 Jun 2011 14:48

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mplex.html

A plane equipped with radiation monitors has been sent over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory as a 110-square-mile wildfire burned just 50-feet from its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific experiments on hold for days.


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