Nuclear Weapons Building On Fault Line

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

As if the stolen nuclear secrets isn't enough to "rock" Los Alamos!

Nuclear Weapons Building On Fault Line - (LOS ALAMOS) -- A 
fault line may NOT be the best place for nuclear weapons research 
center... but that's where the Cold War-era building at Los Alamos 
National Laboratory sits. The Chemistry and Metallurgy Research 
Building is the home for experiments with plutonium and other 
radioactive materials... as well as other work crucial to maintaining 
nuclear weapons. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 
Chairman John Conway says the Department of Energy should 
replace the 550-thousand-square-foot structure because of 
earthquake threats and other safety problems. Conway says his 
agency has NOT made a formal recommendation to Energy 
Secretary Bill Richardson to replace the building. Conway says 
he's NOT worried about safety to the public in the short term... but 
the future of the building has been in doubt since evidence surfaced 
that the earthquake fault runs underneath it. 

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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