N.M. Science
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RRW problems
Ralph Vartabedian has a story in this morning's LA Times suggesting problems for the Reliable Replacement Warhead Frankenbomb scheme: An effort to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in... Read more »
Bingaman and Climate Change
The climate change game is afoot in a big way in Washington, for the first time in the 10 years that I've been following the issue. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.,... Read more »
Nukes and Climate Change
One of the most interesting science-environmental policy games afoot these days is the collision between traditional lefties, with their anti-nuclear inclinations, and traditional righties, with their anti-climate change action inclinations.... Read more »
More on “secrets”
Back from a couple of days' vacation to an interesting note from Steve Aftergood's Secrecy News about a new Congressional Research Service policy. The CRS does excellent reports and analysis... Read more »
When is a secret not a “secret”?
Language I used in this morning's story about WIPP has created something of a stir with the bureaucrats at the Department of Energy. The offending word was "secret", as in... Read more »
More WIPP Waste Approvals
In this morning's paper, I wrote about EPA's near-final approval of shipments of remote-handled waste from Idaho to WIPP, in southeast New Mexico. But wait, there's more…. EPA just sent... Read more »
Countdown to Armageddon
The editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have moved up the hands on their famous "doomsday clock," arguing that nuclear threats – including those caused by our own... Read more »
Another Round of Winter Weather?
The National Weather Service issued a notice this afternoon suggesting we could be in for another round of stormy weather: NEW MEXICO CAN EXPECT MORE SNOW TOWARD THE END OF... Read more »
Activists Running Livermore?
No one actually expects the two anti-nuclear groups, Tri-Valley Cares and Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, to win their bid to manage Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the federal government.... Read more »
Busywork for Nuclear Scientists
The New York Times yesterday expressed its institutional displeasure (reg. req.) with the Reliable Replacement Warhead, the new nuke design being developed by our labs: Let the buyer beware. While... Read more »
Global Warming and Southwest Drought
I did a story last fall about a new analysis of global climate change and western drought, done by Marty Hoerling and Jon Eischeid up in Boulder. It was, for... Read more »
Just Because it Didn’t Snow in Albuquerque
Just because it didn't snow in Albuquerque, don't assume last weekend's storm was a bust. Chama got a foot of snow, according to the National Weather Service, Red River got... Read more »
