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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years.
Carbon-14, C-14, 14 C or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.Its presence in organic matter is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
Soon after the publication of Libby's 1949 paper in Science, universities around the world began establishing radiocarbon-dating laboratories, and by the end of the 1950s there were more than 20 active 14 C research laboratories. It quickly became apparent that the principles of radiocarbon dating were valid, despite certain discrepancies, the ...
In the early 2000s, the U.S. Department of Energy started funding work for research into capturing carbon on purpose, and New Mexico Tech secured $100 million in funding in 2002 for an ongoing ...
The CMR c. 1952. Construction of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) building began in 1949 and was completed in 1952. [2] The building contained six wings and in 1959 a seventh laboratory wing was added. In 1960, Los Alamos built Wing 9, a 64,000-square-foot (5,900 m 2) addition containing hot cells with remote handling capabilities.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1943 Triad National Security, LLC (Since 2018) [8] 14,150 US$3,648,000,000 Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1948 Honeywell International (since 2017) [9] 13,400 US$2,813,000,000 Livermore, California, 1956 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Dec. 17—A conservation agreement between one northern New Mexico landowner and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation means that elk and mule deer will be guaranteed 3,537 acres of winter range in ...
The bomb pulse is the sudden increase of carbon-14 (14 C) in Earth's atmosphere due to the hundreds of above-ground nuclear tests that started in 1945 and intensified after 1950 until 1963, when the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. [2]