N.M. Science
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Tennessee uranium plant design mistake carries $539 million price tag
Frank Munger reports that we now have a price tag for the mistakes made at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 plant in the design of a new uranium processing... Read more »
Legislators looking at New Mexico’s water problems
Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, introduced a bill today in the New Mexico legislature aimed at clamping down on the practice of selling water rights on land, then turning around... Read more »
VLA getting in on asteroid hunt
Scientists will use New Mexico’s Very Large Array radio telescope to track an asteroid passing close to Earth later this week: A 150-foot-wide asteroid called 2012 DA14, discovered just a... Read more »
Navajo Nation uses 6 percent of New Mexico’s surface water
Attorney: Navajos entitled to one-third of the water
Moniz to replace Chu at Energy Department?
I’ll forgive you for ignoring me based on my track record to date on sharing DC media gossip about new cabinet picks (see Carter, Ashton). But for what it’s worth,... Read more »
For the record, still no Niño
The whole point of an El Niño or La Niña forecast is to get a feel beforehand for the odds of the fall-winter-spring season being wet or dry. So given... Read more »
February New Mexico runoff forecast: very little water
As New Mexico enters its third consecutive year of drought, water managers and users are paying unusually close attention to the forecasts. Usually this early in the water season, they... Read more »
Prescribed burns in the east mountains
The US Forest Service sent out a notice this morning about prescribed burning planned this week in the Sandia-Manzano mountains east of Albuquerque. They’re working on two sites. From the... Read more »
Could MOX Plant Cuts Provide DOE Nuclear Budget Slack?
We had an interesting visit this morning at the Journal from Sandia Labs president Paul Hommert. Among other things, we talked about budget uncertainty as our hapless Congress (my word,... Read more »
NNSA rejiggering NIF
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s longtime goal with its National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was “ignition” – a tiny self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction that puts out more... Read more »
Is lack of water throttling New Mexico’s economy?
Among New Mexico’s economic problems highlighted in a long and thoughtful piece this morning by my colleague Win Quigley is the problem of water. The whole thing is worth reading,... Read more »
