Nuclear waste parked at Los Alamos could face wildfire risk, advocates say at event near Santa Fe

Nuclear waste parked at Los Alamos could face wildfire risk, advocates say at event near Santa Fe

This story was originally published by Source New Mexico at sourcenm.com. A group of New Mexico advocates unveiled a billboard near Santa Fe on Tuesday that urges the federal Department of Energy to quickly move dozens of barrels full of radioactive waste away from wildfire danger to relative safety underground. The group, known as Fire on the Mountain, said the billboard along Interstate 25 near Cienega is aimed at stopping the Energy Departmen…