Snip: Enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear bombs hasn't been accounted for at the UC-run Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and may be missing, an activist group says in a new report.
There is no evidence that the weapons-grade plutonium has been stolen or diverted for illegal purposes, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research said. However, the amount of unaccounted-for plutonium -- more than 600 pounds, and possibly several times that -- is so great that it raises "a vast security issue," the group said in a report to be made public today.
The institute, which is based in Takoma Park, Md., says it compared data from five publicly available reports and documents issued by the U.S. Energy Department and Los Alamos from 1996 to 2004 and found inconsistencies in them. It says the records aren't clear on what the lab did with the plutonium, a byproduct of nuclear bomb research at Los Alamos.
Dr. Bill Wattenberg is filling in for Gene Burns tonight on KGO.com, he will be on for 2 more hours.
He is hot over the Los Alamos story, says it was written by an enviromentalist and is not true.
It is a tree hugger scare story.
He just read it on air and will discuss it in detail in the next hour.
Thanks to both you and Davey for the good links.....later.
There is no evidence that the weapons-grade plutonium has been stolen or diverted for illegal purposes
Well what on earth would anyone want it for other than illegal purposes?
I see, they just misplaced it or all the rocket engineers flunked math.
Los Alamos has been way out there in lax security and problems now for several yearss.