Environmental officials halt test site explosion (Divine Strake!)

[NVMojo]

Nevada environmental officials have halted a massive, non-nuclear explosion scheduled for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site until the federal agency hosting the blast shows it will comply with air quality standards and that hazardous particles can be tracked, letters released Tuesday reveal.

The National Nuclear Security Administration "is prohibited from allowing this test to proceed until authorization from NDEP (the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection) has been received," the state division Administrator Leo Drozdoff wrote in a letter sent Friday to test site manager Kathleen Carlson.

The letter refers to an April 28, 2005, request to Carlson from the state Bureau of Air Pollution Control.

"To date, the NNSA has not responded to this information request. NNSA is reminded that no approval was received. ... In order to conduct this test, NNSA needs to provide all information and demonstrations required," Drozdoff wrote.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Apr-12-Wed-2006/news/6823877.html

[Atman]

1. Half good, half bad...

Until they can show that the hazardous particles will be TRACKED?

Oh, great. "Hey Martha, here come the hazardous particles!"

"Don't worry, dear. We knowed they was a comin. Prezdint Boosh says glow-in-the dark corn will be a GOOD thing, cuz we ken keep a harvestin' way past the sun goes down!"

"God bless that man!"

[HereSince1628]

2. BushCo being stopped by an environmental agency is so sweet

they must just HATE this.

[NVMojo]

3. I haven't stopped laughing. NDEP is the same stupid agency in

bed with Nevada's Bush supporting mines and their mercury emission issues.

[phantom power]

4. This is a non-nuclear device. What hazardous particles do they mean?

[NNadir]

5. The Nevada test site will be contaminated for a long time with fallout.

There were scores of open air nuclear tests on that site in the 1950's and early 1960's.

A chemical explosion could easily stir up some particles left over from that time, depending on where it is located.