[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, VOCs: Livermore Lab (CA) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Miles to go on Livermore nuclear lab cleanup
Quarrels remain as the Northern California community and the federal 
government search for an affordable and environmental solution.

By Ralph Vartabedian
Los Angeles Times
November 13, 2009


The Energy Department is spending $328 million to clean up two separate 
areas of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- the agency's 
largest nuclear-weapons cleanup project in California.

The cleanup is relatively minor compared with others in the U.S., but it 
still has led to conflicts between the local community and the federal 
government as both search for a solution that is affordable and 
environmentally acceptable.

Livermore is one of two U.S. labs that designed nuclear weapons. It 
continues to conduct research into plutonium behavior, high-powered 
lasers, computer-simulated nuclear reactions and other areas.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-livermore13-2009nov13,0,4349620.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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