The lab gets 266 million dollars A YEAR(!) to operate. Has 3,800 emplyees(!).
Just due to parking etc. it is likely these people mostly work at the Berkely campus and not around Oroville. People would notice that many people driving to work.
Maybe that's why the Oroville hspital has such a big nuke medicine dept.
Leuren Moret says, "there is a very high rate of cancer, leukemia, and other rad related diseases in the neighborhoods adjoining the path of SLAC. Also the workers at SLAC used to make their coffee out of the water in the tank that the beam points at at the end of the tunnel. It is highly tritiated water - so the workers are sick too."
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flyingcuttlefish ago
Page 4-5 of this Rand doc. describes the Oroville dam laboratory
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1194/MR1194.chap5.pdf
The lab gets 266 million dollars A YEAR(!) to operate. Has 3,800 emplyees(!). Just due to parking etc. it is likely these people mostly work at the Berkely campus and not around Oroville. People would notice that many people driving to work.
flyingcuttlefish ago
Nuclear Weapons Development at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab
http://www.berkeleycitizen.org/community/community7.htm
ALT Link - http://archive.is/hlAiO
flyingcuttlefish ago
On Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA)
Berkeley lab builds world record tabletop-size particle accelerator
science paper on Laser Plasma Accelerator from Berekely lab
http://geddes.lbl.gov/papers/Leemans%20Geddes%20etal%20BELLA%20AAC2010.pdf
This thing isn't in Oroville ... but who knows if the Oroville lab isn't on the recieving end of the beam(?)
flyingcuttlefish ago
of courrse this thing isn't a weapon ...
http://www2.lbl.gov/publicinfo/newscenter/features/2008/apr/af-bella.html
flyingcuttlefish ago
and here's a 012 report on the poor saps they radiated (claims report) at the SLAC [Stanford Liniar Accelerator] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/pdfs/abrwh/pres/2012/lbnlslac0228bw.pdf
Maybe that's why the Oroville hspital has such a big nuke medicine dept.
Leuren Moret says, "there is a very high rate of cancer, leukemia, and other rad related diseases in the neighborhoods adjoining the path of SLAC. Also the workers at SLAC used to make their coffee out of the water in the tank that the beam points at at the end of the tunnel. It is highly tritiated water - so the workers are sick too."