#losalamos — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117252883154108924
“I think the thrust of your argument this evening has been: ‘You’ve heard that it’ll be really really really really bad. It’ll only be really bad.’ And that’s not good enough for us.”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117252883154108924
“I think the thrust of your argument this evening has been: ‘You’ve heard that it’ll be really really really really bad. It’ll only be really bad.’ And that’s not good enough for us.”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117252883154108924
“I think the thrust of your argument this evening has been: ‘You’ve heard that it’ll be really really really really bad. It’ll only be really bad.’ And that’s not good enough for us.”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117252883154108924
“I think the thrust of your argument this evening has been: ‘You’ve heard that it’ll be really really really really bad. It’ll only be really bad.’ And that’s not good enough for us.”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117252883154108924
“I think the thrust of your argument this evening has been: ‘You’ve heard that it’ll be really really really really bad. It’ll only be really bad.’ And that’s not good enough for us.”
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#Nuclear stupidity for profit #criticality #criticalityaccident #losalamos
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#Nuclear stupidity for profit #criticality #criticalityaccident #losalamos
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#Nuclear stupidity for profit #criticality #criticalityaccident #losalamos
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#Nuclear stupidity for profit #criticality #criticalityaccident #losalamos
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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#Tewa Women United: #Pueblo Infants Endangered by #LANL 's #Radiation Plan
#NativeLedNonprofit #TewaWomenUnited Commissioned Two Reports to Study Impacts. Finding: #LosAlamos National Laboratory Omitted Dose Calculations to Infants and Children in Their Compliance Application
By Tewa Women United, #CensoredNews, November 19, 2024
#EspanolaNewMexico — "The Native-led nonprofit organization Tewa Women United, based in Española, New Mexico, has released two independent scientific technical reports assessing the implications and adherence to regulations concerning Los Alamos National Laboratory’s proposal to release tritium into the open atmosphere from four Flanged #Tritium Waste Containers located in Area G, near #WhiteRockNewMexico.
"These reports found that the concentration of tritium in the most loaded radioactive container, if vented during unfavorable weather conditions, could lead to radiation doses significantly exceeding the annual regulatory limit of 10 millirem established by the Environmental Protection Agency regulatory radiation standards."The author of one report, Bernd Franke, stated, 'In the case of tritium, infants and small children get a radiation dose about three times greater than adults, with the same concentrations of tritium in air, water, and food.'
"However, LANL’s application for venting did not include potential impacts of the #TritiumVenting on infants or children; in effect, LANL did not consider them as 'members of the public.' So far during the permitting process, the #EPA has allowed LANL to ignore these #VulnerablePopulations in their proposal."Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, member of #SanIldefonsoPueblo and one of Tewa Women United’s co- founders, said, 'Tritium makes water, our sacred source of life, radioactive. We were shocked to learn that LANL’s compliance calculations did not take infants and other children into account.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/tewa-women-united-pueblo-infants.html#WaterIsLife #RadioactiveContamination #Genocide #NativeAmericans #ProtectTheSacred
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The Silent Killers in #IndianCountry: #Copper, #Lithium, #Uranium and #Plutonium
Judge finds plutonium plants in #NewMexico and #SouthCarolina violated environmental laws
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 10, 2024
"The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at #LosAlamos National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge.
"Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with #radiation, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign #mining companies targeting Native #sacred lands and communities.
"#CopperMining is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred #OakFlat; #Hualapai are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada for #lithium, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species.
"Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens #Havasupai's aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in #Utah is poisoning #Utes.
"Interior Sec. #DebHaaland said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called '#GreenEnergy transition' in the #FourCorners region.
"More than 500 radioactive #UraniumMill sites remain on the #NavajoNation that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. #EPA, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the #ColdWar sites.
"In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the #environment in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina.
"'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, #AntiNuclear proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration (#NNSA), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [#DOE],' reports Source New Mexico.
"The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of #PlutoniumPits, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for #nuclear weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium.
"'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the #RockyFlatsPlant in #Colorado in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and #EnvironmentalCrimes,' Source New Mexico reports.
"The U.S. government's #AtomicBombTesting in #Nevada left a trail of cancer and death for #WesternShoshone. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth.
"'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation of Indians. Zabarte is featured in '#Downwind' about radiation poisoning from U.S. #NuclearTests.
"Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for #environmental crimes and deaths from #cancer -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of #UraniumMining in the #GrandCanyon, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. #Biden's attorneys have joined the lawsuit with #RioTinto to devastate #OakFlat.
"Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer.
Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches #OakFlat, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of #Aboriginal sacred history in caves in #Australia."Another Australian mining company is targeting #Hualapai's sacred site. It is #Hawstone / #ArizonaLithium, in Perth, Australia.
"#EnergyFuels, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at #WhiteMesaUte, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site. It is #LithiumAmericas.
#Hopi judge #DianeHumetewa granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at #Hualapai's sacred spring."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html#NoUraniumMining #CopperMining #LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #NoWar #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #RecycleCopper #RecycleLithium #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #DefendTheSacred #WhiteMesaMill #Ute #AtomicBomb #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #FirstNations #NativeAmericanNews #SuperfundSites #ToxicWaste #SaveOakFlat #OpenPitMining #Pollution #ReaderSupportedNews
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ICYMI from 2014. Meee-oooow! Misleading headline, however, the wrong type of cat litter caused an explosion at a #NuclearWaste repository in #NewMexico.
Radioactive kitty litter may have ruined our best hope to store nuclear waste
Billions invested in an underground New Mexico repository could be wasted because of one seemingly innocuous decision
By Matt Stroud
May 23, 2014"Some of the most dangerous nuclear waste in the US is currently scattered between 77 locations all over the country, awaiting permanent storage. Until February, many experts suggested that the best place to put it was a facility about 40 miles east of #CarlsbadNewMexico, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). For 15 years, #WIPP has operated as the first and only permanent, deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the country, holding 'low level' radioactive materials — mostly clothing and tools exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons production — in steel barrels more than 2,150 feet below the Earth’s surface.
"But earlier this year two emergencies brought that suggestion — and WIPP’s future — into question. And now it seems kitty litter may be to blame.
What happened?
"WIPP is in a salt desert, and much of the work there involves burrowing through the salt and using huge elevators to deposit the stuff at surface level. The resulting underground caverns are then filled with radioactive waste and eventually closed shut, sealed forever.
"First, on February 5th, a salt-hauling truck caught fire. That would be an inconvenience on the side of a highway, but in an enclosed #SaltCavern surrounded by nuclear waste, it’s a potential catastrophe. Workers evacuated the site. Fortunately no one was hurt. But the fire was significant enough to shut down underground operations until investigators could figure out what happened and how to stop it from happening again. Surface-level operations continued.
"But not for long. Nine days later, late at night on Valentine’s Day, an alarm sounded, indicating that #radioactivity was present in the air underground. No one was below ground at the time, but employees on the surface activated massive fans designed to ventilate the underground air. The next day, another monitor went off — this one on the surface — indicating #AirborneRadiation. Employees who worked outside on the surface were told to take shelter inside buildings completely separated from storage operations. Valves allowing air to flow underground were sealed with high-density expanding foam. Everything came to a standstill, indefinitely.
Fallout
"There are no indications that anyone has been injured from the radiation leak. (All employees went through examinations for radiation exposure; a DOE press release says most workers were not affected, and those who were 'received less exposure than a person receives from a chest X-ray.' [THIS IS TYPICAL PRO-NUCLEAR PROPAGANDA]) But for months, nothing has changed. The standstill remains. WIPP’s 850 or so employees are mainly sitting around, waiting (or "performing surface facilities maintenance or assisting with procedure reviews and revisions") while investigators from the US Department of Energy (#DOE), the New Mexico Environment Department and elsewhere attempt to figure out what happened.
"Initially, there were two hypotheses. The first was that something had gone wrong with the supports inside the cavern where waste was being stored. If that were the case, it meant a piece of salt rock or a steel support had fallen into one of the sealed barrels, puncturing it and releasing radiation into the air.
"'That was an unlikely possibility,' says Norbert T. Rempe, PhD, a retired geologist who spent decades as a principal engineer at WIPP. The cavern where the radiation monitor went off had been dug only recently, so the chances that supports had eroded or collapsed were probably slim.
Burstlid
"Organic kitty litter likely caused a steel barrel's seal to puncture at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM. The damage and the resulting radiation leak could close the facility, experts say. (Department of Energy)
"More likely, he said, was the second hypothesis: that something had gone awry inside one of the radioactive containers — that the radioactive material had become hot for some reason, expanding and puncturing a steel barrel from the inside.
"Last month, DOE investigators went into the cavern. Pictures showed that the latter hypothesis was true; a waste container’s lid was unsealed, and dust around the lid had turned yellow from the unusual heat emanating from inside. Each barrel is labeled to track where it came from. The punctured barrel originated from #LosAlamos National Labs.
"Jim Conca, PhD, a geologist who worked for years at WIPP who now blogs at Forbes about energy issues, believes he knows what blew the lid off at least one of WIPP’s radioactive barrels. The culprit, he wrote, was kitty litter."
#NuclearWasteStorage #NuclearWaste #NuclearRepository
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/23/5742800/did-kitty-litter-just-kill-the-most-successful-nuclear-waste-facility -
#AMD Has a #GPU to Rival #Nvidia’s #H100
#MI300X is a GPU-only version of previously announced #MI300A supercomputing chip, which includes a #CPU and #GPU. The MI300A will be in El Capitan, a supercomputer coming next year to the #LosAlamos #NationalLaboratory. El Capitan is expected to surpass 2 exaflops of performance. The MI300X has 192GB of #HBM3, which Su said was 2.4 times more memory density than Nvidia’s H100. The SXM and PCIe versions of H100 have 80GB of HBM3.
https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/06/13/amd-has-a-gpu-to-rival-nvidias-h100/