Test explosion in Nevada put on indefinite hold

WASHINGTON -- Divine Strake, a massive explosives test originally planned for next month, has been put on indefinite hold.
The National Nuclear Security Administration said Friday it was postponing the test -- which entails detonation of 700 tons of explosives at the Nevada Test Site -- so it can address concerns raised that Divine Strake could spew radioactive contaminants from earlier nuclear tests into the air.
Questions about the test were raised by Nevada environmental officials, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Jim Matheson, and in a lawsuit that includes Utah Downwinders, who were sickened by fallout from Cold War nuclear testing.

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Matheson said in a statement. "I advised him to put all the health and safety data out on the table so that people's fears about being once again exposed to radioactive contamination could be addressed. I am very pleased to see that these agencies have acted on my advice." The agency said it will determine how to best proceed after it decides how to address the questions raised by interested parties.

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http://sltrib.com/utah/ci_3869605

This is good news and I hope it stops this project from ever happening.

for Iran. They can measure the depth of the holes there. :eyes:

n/t

in Iran.

kaboom! where's that clipboard?

Thanks for posting this one ....

"DIVINE"???? Nuclear bombs are God's wrath now??

:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

:scared:

Hatch did one good thing for us after all these years.

He finally got his lips off of bushes ass to work for the people.

Nice try whOrrin Hatch

said go for it after he talked with Bush and the gov. He said he was convinced by the government that nothing bad would happen to the citizens of Las Vegas. After listening to Harry, I think this was the exact moment that I puked on a RE-Elect Harry Reid poster sign.

Link here:
http://reid.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=253677

Go anti-war 3rd Party Candidates!!

The planned detonation of 700 tons of conventional explosives in the Nevada desert next month was postponed indefinitely Friday because of fears over the possible spread of radiation.

The detonation site for the blast, known as "Divine Strake," is at the Nevada Test Site, which is 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas




Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah, a Democrat, has long been a critic of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency's plans for Divine Strake.

"I was greatly concerned, and expressed as much to the director of DTRA," Matheson said. "I advised him to put all the health and safety data out on the table so that people's fears about being once again exposed to radioactive contamination could be addressed.





more at link

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/26/nevada.bomb/index.html

It's about freakin' time.

Yeah, let's test some nukes in our own backyard! Yee haw, it'll be great! :sarcasm:

Finally a rational and reasonable decision. I'm in shock.

Now all we have to worry about is the DOD hiring pseudo scientists to issue fake reports that all will be well then KABOOM !!!

OMG I miss being a deluded optomist.

about Iraqis.

that somewhere along the way, common sense prevailed with these idiots in BushCo?

Miracles do still happen!

New link here

http://sltrib.com/utah/ci_3871339

and the SLC paper is saying the test may go on

There is discussion in nuclear-resistance circles in Nevada that this whole episode is a decoy, a way of deflecting attention from the nuclear waste burial site at Yucca Mt. The cross-country transportation plans for that are (arguably) more alarming than a detonation. Ya gotta wonder.

That would be more likely. Don't needlessly "worry" the people...who have more important things to worry about, like the NEXT "American Idol."