Greg Mello on US Nuclear Weapons Renaissance & Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Lab

DemocracyNow.org - In New Mexico, an out-of-control wildfire that began Sunday has already burned nearly 80-square miles and is a mile or less from Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to a nuclear weapons plutonium facility. Pieces of ash from the fire have dropped onto the laboratory grounds, sparking "spot" fires. A senior investigator with the Project on Government Oversight said a fire at the facility would be a "disaster" that could result in large and lethal releases of radiation. Officials insist explosive materials on the laboratory's grounds are safely stored in underground bunkers made of concrete and steel. But the group, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, told the Associated Press that the fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a low-level radiation dump site in southern New Mexico. Democracy Now! interviews Greg Mello, the director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a citizen-led nuclear disarmament group based in New Mexico. "Los Alamos National Laboratory is becoming the center of plutonium manufacturing for the country," Mello says, even though "it is a place with a lot of natural hazards, not just fires, but also earthquakes."

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[starmanskye]

Bush Jr. prepped the nuclear Weapon Rennaisance; Obomba is predictably extending Military Industrial Complex franchise racket as a loyal frontman for the corporate mafia syndicate. WTF do we need MORE nukes for? America has been hijacked by the most criminal, sociopathic conmen in history. We had the chance to wage peace with USSR & China but Kissinger/Reagan/Bush et al pushed Cold War Imperialism, unregulated predatory capitalism, psyop warfare & false-flag terror instead. DAMN THEM 2 hell!

[ufozmankato]

@94civiclxgrey Most of the talking heads seem to blink alot, lick their lips......I think it's a side effect of being completely full of shit....

[94civiclxgrey]

@ufozmankato I think i smell a rat when someone blinks that much i tend to not believe them!

[94civiclxgrey]

@meeputube Lol Makes the most sense so far!

[Anothercoilgun]

I bet if some oil reserve or gold mine was under that fire that shit would be put out before it even got started.

[Anothercoilgun]

Amazing that the military can kill remotely from a great distance with decent precision, quickly excessively with horrific force but anytime it come to fire fighting its always "we doing our best' Fire has no eyes, no tanks, no shields, no radio, no bullets, and no religion to keep the good fight yet its has proven to be the enemy that cannot be beaten.

[Anothercoilgun]

Agenda 21

[spacu9]

@ufozmankato The blinking is probably a result of all the smoke in the area.

[MrCrowb]

shit! this is horrible and informative and now I really really want to be out of this state

[MlTher]

In order to blackmail the world, the US-Managemen needs more warheads. Without nuclear power plants, no plutonium. Thats why so many nuclear power plants have been build in the past. It's not about electrical power. This energy is far too expensive (1 kilowatt/h of nuclear power generated electricity has a total cost of around 2.8 USD). Plutonium is worth 4 million USD per kg. Good business with deadly materials.