[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Fire at Los Alamos Labs (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Evacuations ordered as wildfire threatens Los Alamos, N.M.


By Michael Winter
USA TODAY
June 27, 2011

Authorities have ordered residents to evacuate as a wildfire  
threatens Los Alamos, N.M., home to the laboratory that developed the  
atomic bomb.

Update at 5:24 p.m. ET: The fire has crossed onto lab property and  
jumped across State Route 4, New Mexico fire officials say. A one- 
acre spot fire was reported in Water Canyon, within Technical Area  
49, on the lab's southwestern boundary.

Update at 5:10 p.m. ET: In an interview with the Weekly Alibi, lab  
spokesman Kevin Roark said there are several metric tons of uranium,  
plutonium, americium and other nuclear materials among the  
facilities. He said these radioactive materials are kept in the most  
secure facilities - deep inside vaults within concrete and steel  
buildings.

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For the entire article, see
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/06/ 
evacuations-ordered-as-wildfire-threatens-los-alamos-nm/1

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Lenny Siegel
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