Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: Scientists Keep Tabs on Rare Owls
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Scientists Keep Tabs on Rare Owls By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The regular explosions in the Los Alamos National Laboratory backcountry do not seem to bother the Mexican spotted owls that have taken up residence in the steep canyons that slice through the nuclear ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Sandia Cutting Security Guards
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Sandia Cutting Security Guards By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Sandia National Laboratories is cutting 25 guards from its work force by the end of September, officials said this week. The cuts are part of a broad effort by U.S. nuclear weapons program managers ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: El Niño's Back, But Wet, Not Yet
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 El Niño's Back, But Wet, Not Yet By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer El Niño is back. Now, from California to Texas, residents are asking whether the global weather pattern will bring relief from drought that has in some areas reached severe proportions. Experts ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Major Nuclear Cutbacks Unlikely
Friday, July 10, 2009 Major Nuclear Cutbacks Unlikely By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer A stable nuclear weapons budget began emerging from Congress this week, with little prospect of the cuts for New Mexico's weapons labs that some had feared. It will be months before a final spending ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: Spill at LANL Waste Plant
Thursday, July 09, 2009 Spill at LANL Waste Plant By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer A 40-year-old plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory that treats liquid radioactive waste had another leak last month as some members of Congress are balking at the rising costs of the plant's replacement ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Radioactive Waste Plant at LANL Has Spill
Thursday, July 09, 2009 Radioactive Waste Plant at LANL Has Spill By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer A 40-year-old plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory that treats liquid radioactive waste had another leak last month as some members of Congress balk at the rising costs of the plant's replacement ...
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ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Nuke Budgets Have a Way of Growing
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Nuke Budgets Have a Way of Growing By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Maintaining old Cold War nukes has proven to be an expensive proposition. They're fiddly, highly optimized feats of human engineering designed to pack the largest, deadliest wallop into the smallest ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Solar Plant Water Usage A Concern
Sunday, June 28, 2009 Solar Plant Water Usage A Concern By John Fleck Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer Look at any map of U.S. solar energy resources, and you will see a band stretching from southern New Mexico across Arizona and into California that shows promise ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: New Way To Harvest Sunlight
Saturday, June 27, 2009 New Way To Harvest Sunlight By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The sunlight danced in and out of Albuquerque's clouds earlier this week as a pair of energy companies joined federal researchers to take the wraps off of a new solar technology. The technology ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: Lab Slow To Fix Fire Hazards
Friday, June 26, 2009 Lab Slow To Fix Fire Hazards By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have been slow to fix fire safety problems identified in 2006, according to federal investigators. The delays “increased ...
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