... for Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories as the country grapples with the energy crunch.     "We've got to have wind. Tide. Solar. Nuclear. Batteries that'll run a car for a couple hundred miles," McCain said of energy options. At the national labs, "We've got some of the best intellect ...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Letters to the Editor        Nuclear-Plant Output Blows Those Wind Turbines Away     A NUCLEAR POWER plant is arguably the most extraordinary product of engineering and scientific know-how in the history of mankind. Once every 18 months or so, a truckload of metal is delivered ...
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... Jim Hoagland The Washington Post        At the strong urging of the Bush administration, Israel has pulled back from threatening to bomb Iran's nuclear enrichment program and has joined the U.S.-led effort to give coercive diplomacy with Tehran a (time-limited) chance.     Actually, Israel is giving ...
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... Tenn. for N.M. By Duncan Mansfield Associated Press        OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Motorists across the South could soon be sharing the highway with nuclear waste generated decades ago in developing the first atomic bomb.     Tons of waste have been waiting for years to leave what is now the Oak Ridge ...
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... came amid heightened speculation that Israel and the United States will attack Iranian targets to destroy what they say are Tehran's suspicious nuclear programs.     Nigeria's main militant group said last week it planned to resume attacks in the oil-rich Niger region because of a British pledge ...
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... By John Fleck Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer        Los Alamos National Laboratory, already busy building parts for new nuclear warheads, could be assigned the job of taking apart old weapons, as well.     If the project goes forward, Los Alamos would be asked to pick up the ...
full story 07/13/08

... By John Fleck Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer        Los Alamos National Laboratory, already busy building parts for new nuclear warheads, could be assigned the job of taking apart old weapons, as well.     If the project goes forward, Los Alamos would be asked to pick up the ...
full story 07/12/08

... Tells of Men Behind Making of Atomic Bomb Associated Press        SANTA FE As J. Robert Oppenheimer waited at Trinity Site to test the first nuclear weapon in the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, it's unlikely the famous physicist considered bursting into song.     But that's the ...
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... . They have restored two turn-of-the-century houses and turned them into bed and breakfasts. One gained everlasting fame as the "Spy House," where nuclear bomb secrets were passed to the Soviet Union in the 1940s. The Grants live close by in a third house they remodeled, on the northwest corner of High ...
full story 07/11/08

... a credit to the merits of the case, and I appreciate all who worked on it to identify those merits."     The appeal, filed by Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety and Amigos Bravos, charged that the department's Bureau of Land Management failed to adequately consider, in approving a federal permit ...
full story 07/10/08