‘We were a sacrifice zone.’
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In a state that’s already short on the resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to double water use.
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The darkest day in history for civilian nuclear energy took place 40 years ago this weekend.
On April 26, 1986, a reactor at a nuclear power plant in the then-Soviet (now Ukrainian) town of Chernobyl exploded, with devastating consequences. Poisonous radiation quickly spread across the area, and eventually most of Europe, affecting 3.5 million people per United Nations estimates, and…
...the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad created by Lee’s legislation “meaningfully expands opportunities for private companies to demonstrate their technologies in partnership with the [DOE].”
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‘They’re pulling away from what’s kept us safe all these years.’
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The state will also fine the Department of Energy millions for violating groundwater standards.
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