By Corey on October 29th, 2009
The New Mexico “Green Jobs Cabinet report” was released yesterday. It’s 98 pages of wonkery not intended for the casual reader.
Not to nitpick—or fearmonger—but there’s a word missing in the report. It’s kind of important. The word is earthquakes.
Although the report spends a good amount of space assessing New Mexico’s potential for geothermal energy—and exploring “Synergies with the Oil and Gas Industry”—it fails to mention, even in passing, one major potential downside of this particular “green” power source: It can cause earthquakes. Continue reading »
Tags: earthquake, geothermal, green jobs, LANL, nuclear
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By Alexa on October 28th, 2009
Why LANL’s latest media dust-up shouldn’t be taken lightly.
On Monday, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board released a damning report on the safety of the main plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The crux of the report is that in the case of a “seismic event,” or major earthquake, along the geologic fault that underlies the lab, the ensuing damage (think earthquake triggers fire triggers big radioactive explosion) would be more than 100 times the allowable federal standard.
Unfortunately, that’s not the worst of it. Continue reading »
Tags: earthquake, LANL, nuclear
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