Not surprising. I grew up in New Mexico and recently lived for a year in Los Alamos, with a girlfriend working as a researcher. I was looking for a space for a

Not surprising. I grew up in New Mexico and recently lived for a year in Los Alamos, with a girlfriend working as a researcher. I was looking for a space for a workshop and almost rented out a garage across from a suspicious empty field… It turned out to be the site of an original Manhattan Project landfill. This piqued my interest, and I looked into the environmental history of Los Alamos. As recounted in the article, the history and current situation are terrifying and incredibly irresponsible. I’m not sure how anyone could ever think that dumping water containing plutonium straight into the ground was not going to be a problem. The thing is, this sort of wanton pollution is hardly unique to Los Alamos. The federal government, military and contractors like the University of California did this all over the country, especially in the west, even very near populated areas. Polluting the surrounding areas is a slightly different topic then poisoning workers, but the attitudes and shoddy practices responsible are the same.