Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a makeshift home for scientists, engineers and young soldiers racing to develop the world’s first atomic bomb. The community is facing growing pains again, 80 years later, as Los Alamos National Laboratory takes part in the nation’s most ambitious nuclear weapons effort since World War II. The mission calls for modernizing the arsenal with droves of new workers producing plutonium cores that will be used to modernize nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, critics question the need and the cost.
Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a makeshift home for scientists, engineers and young soldiers racing to develop the world’s first atomic bomb. The community is facing growing pains again, 80 years later, as Los Alamos National Laboratory takes part in the nation’s most ambitious nuclear weapons effort since World War II. The mission calls for modernizing the arsenal with droves of new workers producing plutonium cores that will be used to modernize nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, critics question the need and the cost.
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Subsequent testing of surfaces and equipment detected beryllium dust — which poses health hazards, even in small amounts — contaminating several rooms, including where the workers had been doing maintenance
Subsequent testing of surfaces and equipment detected beryllium dust — which poses health hazards, even in small amounts — contaminating several rooms, including where the workers had been doing maintenance