Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Top page headline from Australia leading news outlet
Top page headline from Australia leading news outlet
'According to The Centre for Public Integrity, a pair of workers
with “cavalier attitudes” at the Los Alamos National Laboratory stuffed
“so much plutonium into a small space that they came close to
triggering an accidental nuclear chain reaction, all to get some
photos”.
Their actions “nearly doomed a room full of colleagues”, according to a
CPI report.
“Plutonium is the unstable, radioactive, man-made fuel of a nuclear
explosion, and it isn’t amenable to showboating,” it said. “When too
much is put in one place, it becomes ‘critical’ and begins to fission
uncontrollably, spontaneously sparking a nuclear chain reaction, which
releases energy and generates a deadly burst of radiation.”
And it gets much, much worse.
Los Alamos National Laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico — responsible for
the design of nuclear warheads — was a top secret facility during World
War II and the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
But it is in a state
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reference for full article:
http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/birthplace-of-the-atomic-bomb-in-chaos-as-national-nuclear-security-administration-calls-for-help/news-story/c47b70e5ac22e27891d8d9f52daca324
Fake news, laughable to anyone who knows even a tiny bit about what actually happened. But it's why Los Alamos has to be held to the highest standards, because absolutely anything that makes the news will be used by people with agendas against the entire complex.
"Leading news outlet?" Not hardly. So leading that you fail to name the outlet and fail to provide a link.
Currently on the site's home page is a story about an "office party lingerie ad" and UFO story.
But, meets the credibility criteria for some posters on this blog, apparently.
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