N.M. Science
A science & weather blog by John Fleck
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Temperature, atmospheric moisture and fire
Back in June, in writing about climate and the 2012 fire season, I talked to Park Williams, a post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory who has been working on the... Read more »
Groups call for nuke manager Tom D’Agostino’s resignation
In the wake of last week’s news that Los Alamos National Laboratory’s $213 million (or $245 million, depending on how you look at the budget documents) nuclear security system does... Read more »
Notes from Mars
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has become a media darling since its landing in August (and with good reason). Meanwhile the old Opportunity rover still beavers away, long out of the... Read more »
Get thee to the bosque
Rushing this morning and only half-breakfasted, I bought some bad-for-me fast food and swung by the Rio Grande Nature Center between Meeting One and Meeting Two. (“On the way” here... Read more »
DOE Inspector General: nuclear management problems continue
Sometimes, the news is that there is no news. That’s the most important conclusion to draw from a report out today from the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General... Read more »
A bit more background on today’s B61 story
My piece in this morning’s Journal about cost overrun problems with the B61 nuclear bomb included a bit of vented frustration regarding the way the National Nuclear Security Administration and... Read more »
Watching for Albuquerque’s First Freeze
Four years ago, Albuquerque recorded its first freezing temperature at the official Weather Service airport station on Oct. 23. This year, not so much. The overnight low this morning (Tues.,... Read more »
How does the current New Mexico drought compare to the historical record?
A conversation with a friend over the weekend regarding New Mexico’s current drought suggested some people are under the impression that current conditions are historically unprecedented. That is not the... Read more »
Nuclear news
A a couple of nuclear nuclear news tidbits from the past week: From the Nuclear Diner, Russia’s spending over 100 billion rubles (~$3 billion) to modernize its nuclear arsenal. I’m... Read more »
Possible Superfund Site Discovered Under Southeast Albuquerque Neighborhood
Crews working on an old Air Force fuel spill have stumbled on what could be a new Superfund hazardous waste site beneath a southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. The potentially cancer-causing chemicals,... Read more »
We still don’t know how much it might cost to build CMRR
Doing some background reading this week, I ran across this quote from Don Cook, deputy administration for the National Nuclear Security Administration, regarding his agency’s design work on the Chemistry... Read more »
Reasons to like NM nuclear waste idea
The folks over at the Nuclear Diner like the idea of New Mexico hosting high-level nuclear waste storage now that the Yucca Mountain project in Nevada seems dead: We at... Read more »
