Los Alamos fly-around

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Nuclear Watch

By DIANA HEIL
The New Mexican |
August 6, 2004

LOS ALAMOS ? In a rare opportunity, a handful of people from Santa Fe
and Albuquerque took a free flight Thursday to see the buildings,
tunnels and waste pits of Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

Flying directly over the lab isn't allowed. A 20-mile perimeter
encircling the lab is restricted air space, the pilot said. 

But Greg Mello, head of the Los Alamos Study Group, set out Thursday to
push the lab's boundaries but not cross them. He believes more openness
on the part of the lab would make it a healthier institution. 

...

Three journalists and a retired elementary-school teacher from
Albuquerque made the first of three flights Thursday encircling the
nation's largest nuclear-weapons-design lab. Mello, 54, worked four
years at the state Environment Department in the 1980s ? a background he
drew upon as he narrated the flight on a headset. 

"That whole mesa is contaminated," he said, pointing to two water towers
on lab grounds. "There's no plan what to do with that mesa, because the
contamination runs so deep." 

...

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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