NNSA has a very helpful press release explaining those studies showing plutonium ages better than Sophia Loren. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be online … until now: Recent studies by Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories show that the aging of plutonium in U.S. nuclear weapons will not affect reliability over the next several …
Assassination by Polonium
by | 2006-11-28 | 30 Comments
Everyone has probably caught the bits and pieces of headlines on the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned and died last week. There is little conclusive information and the assassination has been linked in the press both to the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the Yukos affair. It’s a James Bond …
German Nuclear Tourism
by | 2006-11-27 | 2 Comments
The German Federal government is working with a German history museum in Bonn, the Haus der Geschichte, to transform the former Emergency Seat of the Constitutional Organs of the Federal Republic (Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes)—Germany’s answer to Mount Weather—into a tourist destination. The New York Times has a story by Mark Landler complete with …
Sandia Stalker
by | 2006-11-26 | 3 Comments
Another wayward youngster at our national labs. I am going to have to create a separate category for these stories: A woman is accused of using a computer at a national laboratory to hack into a cell phone company’s Web site to get a number for Chester Bennington, lead singer of the rock group Linkin …
