была мокрющая спина-smoke plume-Los Alamos fire

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 (воспоминания 2000 года в работе перенести потом в 2000 год)
http://www.lasg.org/Traces/2000/Traces2000-2.pdf

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5:00, 12 мая 2000
Из Лос-Аламоса и окрестных городов эвакуировано 22 тысячи человек

Фото CNN
В Лос-Аламосе, где находится самая крупная в США лаборатория ядерного оружия, из-за лесных пожаров объявлена эвакуация населения. Из Лос-Аламоса и окрестных городов эвакуировано 22 тысячи человек. Президент США распорядился выделить необходимые средства для ликвидации стихийного бедствия. Предстоит эвакуировать все 18-тысячное население этого закрытого города.

Пожар бушует уже неделю. Сотрудники местного национального парка решили выжечь сухой кустарник и траву, но не рассчитали силы ветра. Огонь из парковой зоны перекинулся на лесной массив и вплотную приблизился к ядерной лаборатории.

Еще в среду пожарные уверенно заявляли, что в самые ближайшие часы им удастся справиться с огнем. Но в четверг порывы ветра достигли ста километров в час.

Пламя уже почти подобралось к ядерному комплексу. По заявлению руководства этого исследовательского центра, плутоний и все взрывоопасные вещества удалось надежно защитить от огня.
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Pltltonium Amount Detected Is Debated
By IAN HOFF1VIAN  Journal StajfWriter
A whiff of plutonium could have floated into White Rock during the peak of the Cerro Grande Fire, as well as some depleted uranium at the Los Alamos County Airport. Or not.
They could have been ghosts produced by ultrasensitive lab analysis.
The latest wave of state airtesting data, rushed onto the Internet on Friday before thorough
analysis, is fraught with such large uncertainties that it is difficult to say for sure. State
scientists say their results show nothing more than typical, extremely tiny releases of lab
contaminants.
"It's consistent with historic measurements," said John Parker, head of the New Mexico Environment Department's bureau watching over U.S. Department of Energy facilities.· "If what
we're seeing is what we've been living with all these years, our assumption is there's no additional risk."
. An array of state, federal and Los Alamos National Laboratorv scientists agree the bulk o'f
smoke-testing data so far reflects no evidence of radioactive or hazardous releases from
the burning of 7,700 acres of lab land. Instead, air-testing results show increases in radioactivity of a nature more close Iv matching emissions from the' burning of a forest growing out of northern New Mexico's uraniumladen soils.
"Clearly there was some additional exposure based on natural materials," Parker said. But "we
can't even quantify it. It's so far below any level of measurable health risk."
Environmentalists cited the higher radioactivity levels in demanding independent monitoring
and analysis of fire-ravaged land around the Los Alamos lab.
"We're calling for an independent citizens review board to assess the monitoring data and
risks and we want a long-term health study of people exposed to the smoke," said Suzanne
Westerly, director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety in Santa Fe.

Sergei Pashchenko of Bernalillo, a consultant to the International Depleted Uranium S1:udy Team, concludes "on the basis of data from LANL, the fires that began on May 8 increased the concentration of alpha radiation in the air up to 30 fold," according to a statement
released by the study team Thursday.
The state's latest data features a questionable detection for plutonium in White Rock between
May 13 and 15, at a level of 15.1 attacuries, or millionths of a billionth of a curie, a hair above the minimum detection level of 13.9 attacuries that is technologically possible to see. Scientists generally dismiss any finding so close to the minimum detection limit as being within the margin of lab error. They would still debate whether plutonium detected at
almost twice the level found actually existed.
Longtime lab watchdog Greg Mello said the two apparent detections are "not significantly
above zero." Inhaling even tiny amounts of plutonium can produce internal radiation to lung tissues and increase the risk of lung cancer. But the tinier the number, the more that risk "becomes quite small compared to all the other ways you can die," said Mello, head of the Los Alamos Studv Group, a nuclear-disarmamen't group in Santa Fe.
"We have apparent spikes but they may not even be there," said Mello of the state's latest
air-testing results. "I don't think you can make definitive conclusions one way or another from looking at these levels." He commended state scientists for putting their data out so quickly for public review.
"1 know they're rushing this out prior to full analysis so the world can see the raw numbers
whether they mean anything or not," Mello said. /// The ASSOCiated Press contributed to
this report.

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These true-color images covering north-central New Mexico capture the bluish-white smoke plume of the Los Alamos fire, just west of the Rio Grande. The middle image is a downward-looking (nadir) view, taken by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. As MISR flew from north to south, it viewed the scene from nine different angles. The top image was taken by the MISR camera looking 60 degrees forward along the orbit, whereas the bottom image looks 60 degrees aft.
The plume stands out more dramatically in the steep-angle views. Its color and brightness also change with angle. By comparison, a thin, white, water cloud appears in the upper right portion of the scene, and is most easily detected in the top image. MISR uses these angle-to-angle differences to monitor particulate pollution and to identify different types of haze. Such observations allow scientists to study how airborne particles interact with sunlight, a measure of their impact on Earth's climate system. The images are about 400 km (250 miles) wide. The spatial resolution of the nadir image is 275 meters (300 yards); it is 1.1 kilometers (1,200 yards) for the off-nadir images. North is toward the top.
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
For more information, see the MISR web site
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http://www.prometeus.nsc.ru/eng/science/scidig/00/may.ssi
Associated Press Online / 05/26/2000
Monitoring of Los Alamos Lab Sought
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 26, 2000 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Environmentalists are demanding an independent analysis and regular monitoring of radiation levels on the fire-ravaged land around Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A federal air-monitoring team last week reported elevated background radiation levels, which it said would be normal when vegetation burns. But the levels, in some cases 2 to 10 times higher than normal, triggered concern among some New Mexico residents.
"We're calling for an independent citizens review board to assess the monitoring data and risks, and we want a long-term health study of people exposed to the smoke," Suzanne Westerly, director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety in Santa Fe, said Thursday.
Russian nuclear and atmospheric scientist Sergei Pashchenko, a consultant to a non-governmental group which works to ban weapons containing depleted uranium, said he analyzed the limited data available on the lab's Internet site and determined it could not be discounted as naturally occurring effects of the fires. Lab spokesman Kevin Roark had no comment on the claims but said he wasn't surprised.
"Every time we put out data, the activist groups dispute it," he said.
The wildfires burned more than 48,000 acres and destroyed more than 200 homes near the labs in northern New Mexico. Los Alamos National Laboratory: www.lanl.gov/worldview
© 2000 Associated Press, All rights reserved.


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