Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials.
Funding will aid environmental cleanup and compliance. Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 22, 2009—Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced plans to begin spending environmental cleanup funds made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The $212 million in Recovery Act funds will go toward environmental compliance and cleaning up Cold War-era buildings slated for demolition. "The Recovery Act will help change the skyline of Los Alamos, while creating jobs in the community," said George Rael, assistant manager for Environmental Operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos Site Office. "We are ready to begin these projects immediately and plan to make extensive progress in meeting our cleanup responsibilities, while stimulating the local economy." More than 20 unused buildings and structures in the Laboratory's Technical Area 21 (TA-21) are slated for demolition, including an empty former plutonium research and processing facility. Los Alamos residents may know the buildings at TA-21 as the quarter-mile-long line of tan-colored structures on DP Mesa. Recovery Act funding will also go to cleaning up the Laboratory's first waste disposal pits, known as Material Disposal Area B, that were in use from 1944 through 1948.
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