Yes, unfortunately they are. Another report said that some are in outdoor tents, some buried and some left outside in the open air.
Oh, but they’ll shut down all private farming, manufacturing and oil wells if they find a tiny lizard that might be “harmed” by human activity.
Mega double-standard, anyone?
With fire burning just a few miles away, Los Alamos National Laboratory spokesman Terry Wallace pointed out Area G. It's there that 10,000 fifty-five gallon drums filled with low level radioactive material are stored.
"The bulk of the drums there truly are things like notes that are contaminated, contaminated gloves," Wallace says.
Those drums are in outdoor domes made of reinforced steel covered with a plasticized fire retardant. But lab officials insist this site and two others containing additional radioactive materials are safe. More radioactive waste is stored in concrete tubes buried deep in the ground; plutonium and uranium are stored in vaults inside hardened concrete buildings.
Part of the reason the waste is stored in porous volcanic sediments on a mesa hundreds of feet above the Rio Grande river and the nearby populated communities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque is that the environutters (and Harry Reid) have blocked storage deep inside Yucca Mountain in the barren Nevada desert.
Best post of the month!