Contamination from Los Alamos National Laboratory (Albuquerque, Santa Fe: live, moving to, activity)

[earthfaries]

It mentioned in the Santa Fe New Mexican today about concerns of contamination from the Los Alamos National Laboratory...could someone please share with me the concerns, or where I can read more about it.

We have our hearts set on moving to Santa Fe but the possibility of contamination from a research facility really scares me.

Thanks!

[ThatTNGuy]

I lived in Los Alamos for 17 years, and my health was never adversely affected. What kind of contamination was this article talking about, exactly?

[RamblinRoseRanch]

Can't be any worse than our three-eyed fish in Melton Hill Lake, eh?

I find the paper there hard to maneuver around but i'll see what the Santa Fe paper says.....

[earthfaries]

Here is the paragraph from the article from today's paper ~~~

"Indeed — and the project is too far along to stop it now. Concerns about contamination from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and about the very availability of water in our part of the arid, fast-growing West, have been brushed aside; we're bound for the Río Grande, as the song goes. As for federal money, senatorial sugar-daddy Pete Domenici long ago warned that his pork power wouldn't likely extend to Buckman. And the state Legislature? Revenue is way behind projections."

Thanks!

[CCCVDUR]

What's unsettling is that contamination can get into the Rio Grande (major river in New Mexico). and I think as of sometime last year (2008), Albuquerque now gets its drinking water from the Rio Grande?

Can anyone confirm this?

The other scary thing is when those forest ecologists et. al. set that mountain on fire several years ago behind Los Alamos Ntl. Labs. Radioactivity could have gotten dispersed in the smoke plume from that and spread to several western states.

Did anyone every try to measure this at the time?

That lab should just be shut down. Unfortunately it's in the backyard of some of the most politically progressive and beautiful regions in the US.

[rybert]

The Labs are part of what makes NM great!

I would be a lot more worried about Radon gas than anything coming from the Labs.

Suppose I should have that third arm checked-out though. Hate to see it go... it's pretty useful.

[TiaDalma]

Originally Posted by rybert

The Labs are part of what makes NM great!

I would be a lot more worried about Radon gas than anything coming from the Labs.

Suppose I should have that third arm checked-out though. Hate to see it go... it's pretty useful.

LOL Rybert! Need a good surgeon?

From memory only now, the Fire was close, but did not damage anything "radioactive" {scary!} Soooooo there'd be Nothing to 'measure'

Rybert's spot on about the Radon. Hey! that rhymes
Radon is every-where.

Pro or Con, the Labs do alot of great work and research.

As would more Nuclear Power Plants, imho.


Tia Dalma

[CCCVDUR]

Originally Posted by TiaDalma

LOL Rybert! Need a good surgeon?

From memory only now, the Fire was close, but did not damage anything "radioactive" {scary!} Soooooo there'd be Nothing to 'measure'

Rybert's spot on about the Radon. Hey! that rhymes
Radon is every-where.

Pro or Con, the Labs do alot of great work and research.

As would more Nuclear Power Plants, imho.


Tia Dalma

The controlled burn that got out of control burned forests adjacent to the town and the labs. All the radioactive bombs that they shot off over the years undoubtedly contaminated much of northern NM. Therefore, the massive fire would have released the radioactivity into the air. It's like northern Arizona and Utah where there is contamination from the labs just north of Las Vegas.

By the way, Las Vegas, NV has a very high rate of thyroid cancer. This is from the elevated radioactive iodine that gets into the groundwater and eventually makes it to Lake Mead, where the drinking water is from.

[rybert]

Did they detonate any bombs outside of White Sands missile range? I think they contained all the experiments to the South if the state.

[TiaDalma]

Originally Posted by rybert

Did they detonate any bombs outside of White Sands missile range? I think they contained all the experiments to the South if the state.

Right Rybert, about 130-150 miles south of Los Alamos. Trinity site and nearby, for NM testing.

Tia Dalma