Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs located in Upton, New York on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of a former U.S. Army base. Brookhaven is operated for the United States Department of Energy by Brookhaven Science Associates. It is staffed by over 3,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, and support personnel, and hosts 4,000 guest investigators every year. Discoveries made at the lab have won six Nobel Prizes. Facilities at Brookhaven Lab include the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for research into a quark-gluon plasma, two synchrotrons, and two cyclotrons used to produce radioactive materials for medical applications. Areas of research include nuclear and high-energy physics, structural biology, and nuclear nonproliferation. Accidental, unpublicized leakage of tritium into the groundwater during the 1990s angered people living near the lab, and led to management changes. == External links == * [http://www.bnl.gov Brookhaven National Lab Official Website] * == References == * [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/rhic.html "Dr. Strangelet or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang"] U.S. National Labs
The word "release" seemed to suggest deliberate intent, when the fact is that the leakage was unknown until detected in monitoring wells. I changed the word to "leakage", which is more accurate and less misleading. The word "environment" was far too broad, and seemed to suggest that the tritium either went into the atmosphere or actually escaped the laboratory grounds and affected drinking water; it did neither. I therefore substituted the more-precise, more-accurate, and less-confusing term "groundwater". (References and documentation will be supplied upon request: bam@tripodics.com ) I also updated the tense ("have angered" to "angered"), since the HFBR was closed nearly a decade ago, and added a note that management changes resulted. (Actually, the site contractor, AUI, had its contract cancelled -- in a move many view as largely political! But I really don't think that can of worms needs re-opening.)
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs located in Upton, New York on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of a former U.S. Army base. Brookhaven is operated for the United States Department of Energy by Brookhaven Science Associates. It is staffed by over 3,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, and support personnel, and hosts 4,000 guest investigators every year. Discoveries made at the lab have won six Nobel Prizes. Facilities at Brookhaven Lab include the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for research into a quark-gluon plasma, two synchrotrons, and two cyclotrons used to produce radioactive materials for medical applications. Areas of research include nuclear and high-energy physics, structural biology, and nuclear nonproliferation. Accidental, unpublicized leakage of tritium into the groundwater during the 1990s angered people living near the lab, and led to management changes. == External links == * [http://www.bnl.gov Brookhaven National Lab Official Website] * == References == * [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/rhic.html "Dr. Strangelet or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang"] U.S. National Labs
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The word "release" seemed to suggest deliberate intent, when the fact is that the leakage was unknown until detected in monitoring wells. I changed the word to "leakage", which is more accurate and less misleading. The word "environment" was far too broad, and seemed to suggest that the tritium either went into the atmosphere or actually escaped the laboratory grounds and affected drinking water; it did neither. I therefore substituted the more-precise, more-accurate, and less-confusing term "groundwater". (References and documentation will be supplied upon request: bam@tripodics.com ) I also updated the tense ("have angered" to "angered"), since the HFBR was closed nearly a decade ago, and added a note that management changes resulted. (Actually, the site contractor, AUI, had its contract cancelled -- in a move many view as largely political! But I really don't think that can of worms needs re-opening.)
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