Sandia nuclear weapons laboratory

Del af USAs aktuelle atomvåbenindustrielle kompleks som administreres af den amerikanske våbenfabrik Lockheed Martin for energiministeriet. Laboratoriet er beliggende i Albuquerque, NM og blev oprettet under Manhattanprojektet. Nuværende adresser: Kirtland Air Force Base og Livermore, Californien, nabo til Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Også afdelinger i Hawaii og Nevada. Det er Sandia opgaver at opretholde nukleare våbensystemer troværdighed og sikkerhed, udføre forskning og udvikling inden for våbenkontrol og ikke-spredning teknologier, og undersøge metoder til bortskaffelse farligt affald fra USAs atomvåbenprogrammer.
Miljøforurening
/ Contamination, environmental pollution
Barium ; beryllium ; cerium ; cæsium ; jod ; krypton ; lanthanum ; molybdæn ; neptunium ; niobium ; plutonium ; polonium ; radioaktivitet ; ruthenium ; strontium-90 ; tellur ; tritium ; uran ; xenon ; zirkonium.
Se også: Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex.

Litteratur

Radiation Releases at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico: Recently Reported Radiation Releases and Other Potential Sources of Radiation Release. / : Paul Robinson. 2006.
- http://www.sric.org/nuclear/docs/Robinson.pdf
The Mixed Waste Landfill
Based on data provided to NMED in 2001 by SNL, the MWL contains approximately 100,000 cubic feet of radioactive and hazardous waste, including more than 10 tons of depleted uranium, estimated to have contained more than 6300 curies of radioactivity at the time of disposal. Hazardous constituents at the MWL include organic chemicals such as trichloroethylene (TCE) and carbon tetrachloride and heavy metals such as lead and cadmium. Radioactive constituents at the MWL include more than 40 radioactive isotopes such as: tritium (H-3), sodium-22, barium-133, cobalt-57, cobalt-60, molybdenum-54, krypton-85, strontium-90, iodine-129, and cesium-137, polonium-210, radium-226, uranium-235, americium-241, thorium oxide, and plutonium-238, among other isotopes.” (Citizen Action, 2006).

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