Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2024
Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. Just like the current fires in Texas, the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico was, at the time, the state’s largest fire on record at 156,000 acres. The lab conducts research to maintain the US nuclear stockpile among other missions.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 10, 2023
The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”
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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 2, 2024
On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.
Frontiers
MAY 4, 2023
Article link: [link] Radiation exposure delays fetal growth in wild living Japanese monkeys Since 2008, the population of Japanese monkeys, commonly known as ‘snow monkeys’, in Fukushima City has been managed systematically. They published their results in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 26, 2022
Depending on the nature and extent of the damage, the plant could experience one or more core meltdowns or spent nuclear fuel pool fires, which could trigger a radiological release rivaling that of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident or even the larger release from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. How rapidly could this sequence of events begin?
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
The Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, an association of state and local professionals, has concluded that “no federal regulations explicitly govern the management and disposal of TENORM associated with the oil and gas industry.” Rules to protect workers, including truck drivers, also have significant gaps.
Physics World
MAY 2, 2021
Antihelium-4 was created for the first time in 2011, in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. According to theory, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the Big Bang, and subsequently all annihilated, leaving a universe full of radiation and no matter.
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