A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Lab may be unsafe and unnecessary. But proponents say the mission is a must.
A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Lab may be unsafe and unnecessary. But proponents say the mission is a must.
LOS ALAMOS Los Alamos began as an “instant city,” springing from the Pajarito Plateau in 1943 at the dawn of the Atomic Age. More than 8,000 people flocked here to work for Los Alamos National Laboratory and related industries during the last years of World War II. Now the city may be on the […]
A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived. But proponents say the mission is a must.