N.M. Science
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Stretching irrigation supplies
Rain the past week has bought middle Rio Grande farmers an extra day’s irrigation water. The latest computer model runs suggest the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District will run out... Read more »
on sunflowers and water
update: here’s the column in the morning paper Some folks in Peña Blanca and elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley between Cochiti and Bernalillo are experimenting with sunflowers as an... Read more »
Albuquerque surface water production has its best month ever
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority’s San Juan-Chama river diversion scooped up 7,443 acre feet of water from the Rio Grande in July, the best month ever for the... Read more »
Monsoon watch: an Arizona-centric summer rainy season
Forecasters like to describe our summer rainy season as being like a garden hose turned on full blast with no one holding the end, whipping this way and that. It’s... Read more »
Stratcom sounding more optimistic about plutonium plans
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of this week’s Deterrence Symposium in Omaha, StratCom chief Robert Kehler voiced some optimism about the National Nuclear Security Administration’s approach to meeting US... Read more »
A Warm July
Nationwide, July was the hottest month in US history, according to the latest NOAA “State of the Climate” report. How did New Mexico do? It was a bit cooler here... Read more »
Los Alamos plutonium “Plan B” – the documents
We know a bit more about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s mysterious “Plan B” to do plutonium work for the nation’s nuclear stockpile thanks to a pair of PowerPoint presentations published... Read more »
General suggests cuts in US nuclear stockpile reserves
Boston Globe defense reporter Bryan Bender had an interesting piece yesterday quoting Air Force chief of staff Norton Schwartz suggesting the possibility of cuts in the US stockpile of reserve... Read more »
Middle Rio Grande irrigation supplies running low
The Middle Rio Grande Irrigation District will run out of water stored in upstream dams sometime around Aug. 18 16, agency officials said today, meaning substantially reduced irrigation flows for... Read more »
Criticism of nuke bomb cost overrun turns bipartisan
Michael Turner, the House Republican who has been the National Nuclear Security Administration’s harshest critic of late, turned concerns over cost overruns for the B61 nuclear weapons refurbishment effort (also... Read more »
More on B61 cost overruns
Elaine Grossman at Global Security Newswire has more on the Pentagon’s $10 billion estimate for the cost of refurbishing the nation’s stockpile of B61 nuclear bombs (up from a National... Read more »
House members say federal management threatens US nuclear goals
Buck McKeon and Michael Turner, key House Republicans who have been pushing for changes in National Nuclear Security Administration management, sent a strong letter this week to Tom D’Agostino, head... Read more »
