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Thanks to Fukushima Light Shed on U.S. Nuclear Facility Located on a Volcano By Russ Wellen, March 22, 2011 The light shining on the safety of nuclear energy as a result of the Japanese nuclear crisis has been of such powerful wattage that it's even flushing safety issues with nuclear weapons labs and manufacturing facilities out of hiding. Roger Snodgrass reports for the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Los Alamos, of course, is the national lab in New Mexico created for the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Still a work in progress after all these years, the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) facility is being built to the tune of a cool $4.3 billion. That's six times the cost (adjusted for inflation) of the division of the Manhattan Project that was based in Los Alamos. The CMRR will be used to increase the capacity to produce plutonium "pits," which is where a nuclear weapon's chain reaction occurs. If that doesn't sound like disarmament, you're right. Funding for the project by the Obama administration was intended, in part, to win Republican votes for the ratification of New START. But, in terms of pure disarmament, it not only cancels out New START, it ensures the health of the nuclear-industrial complex for many years. Snodgrass writes:
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In fact, when it comes to locating such facilities on the side of a volcano in an area prone to seismic activity, there's no wisdom whatsoever to question. |
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