Los Alamos waste moves toward aquifers

[The Straight Story]

Los Alamos waste moves toward aquifers

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Toxic waste from New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory is trickling toward the state's underground water aquifers, officials say.

The deadly waste is leaking from underground burial sites used to store the radioactive waste generated by the building of nuclear bombs, with some of it reaching to within several hundred feet of the edge of the Rio Grande River, one of the most important water sources in the Southwest United States, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

Monitoring sites set up by the New Mexico Environment Department have detected organic compounds such as perchlorate, which is used in rocket propellant, as well as the radioactive byproducts of nuclear fission, the newspaper said.

Although the levels of contamination found aren't high enough to trigger health warnings, state officials say no one knows how the waste is slipping through scrambled layers of rock on the 40-square-mile Los Alamos complex.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/11/01/Los-Alamos-waste-moves-toward-aquifers/UPI-17941257120991/

[avaistheone1]

1. Where are those whacko nutcases who post on DU that nuclear energy is safe now?

[optimator]

2. "aren't high enough to trigger health warnings"

uhhhh, what?
there is an allowable amount of RADIOACTIVE WASTE before health warnings???

[SpiralHawk]

3. Nuclear Mutant Water to wash down Genetically Mutant Food

Urp. No wonder peeps like Dickie'Five-Military-Deferments'Cheney, George AWOL Bush, and Sarah Palin are adored in Republiconland.

[carlyhippy]

4. why does nuclear waste end up being dumped in NM?

Los Alamos, WIPP plant in Carlsbad, won't be the land of enchantment, it will be the land of the glowing land and people.