The venting may harm pregnant women and fetuses, advocates say.
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The long path of plutonium: A new map charts contamination at thousands of sites, miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Plutonium hotspots appear along tribal lands, hiking trails, city streets and the Rio Grande River, a watchdog group finds
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The reawakening of America’s nuclear dinosaurs
Are America’s plutonium pits too old to perform in the new Cold War? Or are new ones necessary?
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Buried secrets, poisoned bodies
Why did a Truchas woman die with extraordinary amounts of plutonium in her body — and why was she illegally autopsied? For this reporter, the answers hit close to home.
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Chess, cards and catnaps in the heart of America’s nuclear weapons complex
At Los Alamos National Laboratory, workers collect full salaries for doing nothing
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The terrible emptiness of “Oppenheimer”
Bernice Gutierrez was eight days old when a light 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun cracked open the predawn sky. No one in south-central New Mexico knew where it came from, or that the tiniest units of matter could be split to unleash such energy. Nor could they know that when the […]
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Safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory
A history of flooding, an earthquake and little fires in the belly of the beast
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The ABCs of a nuclear education
New Mexico’s local colleges are training students to work in a plutonium pit factory. What does this mean for their future — and the world’s?
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Plutonium by degrees
New Mexico’s local colleges are training students to work in a plutonium pit factory. What does this mean for their future — and the world’s?
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My nuclear family
A personal reflection about Los Alamos National Laboratory and the shadow it has cast on families, New Mexico and the globe
