January 2022

Radioactive Waste 835 - New Mexico is Challenging The Los Alamos National Laboratory About Cleanup

     Officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are reiterating their promise to focus on cleaning up Cold War-era contamination left by decades of research and bomb-making. However, New Mexico environmental officials and watchdog groups remain concerned about the pace and the likelihood that the U.S. government has significantly understated its environmental liability at the Laboratory.

Radioactive Waste 835 - New Mexico is Challenging The Los Alamos National Laboratory About Cleanup

     Officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are reiterating their promise to focus on cleaning up Cold War-era contamination left by decades of research and bomb-making. However, New Mexico environmental officials and watchdog groups remain concerned about the pace and the likelihood that the U.S. government has significantly understated its environmental liability at the Laboratory.

Nuclear Weapons 766 - Israel Considers Iranian Nuclear Program An Existential Threat

     Israel considers Iran’s nuclear ambitions as an existential threat and has been outspoken about international efforts to reach an accord with Iran. As talks on curbing Iran’s nuclear program progress in Vienna, Israeli officials have somewhat softened their stance on the matter. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently said, “For sure there can be a good agreement.

Nuclear Reactors 987 - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Just Dismissed Oklo Application For Aurora Advanced Nuclear Reactor

     The license application for one of the first advance nuclear designs to undergo federal scrutiny suffered a serious setback today. The regulators announced that they were dismissing the proposal because of a lack of information.

New Thai Chicken Soup at Panera

New menu items are always so exciting, aren't they? At Panera, the company is stepping things up a notch this year with some really delicious-sounding items. The first, a Thai chicken soup, contains carrots, bell peppers, mushrooms, edamame, yellow coconut curry broth and other Thai spices. It's the first of the company's new globally-inspired foods so we'll surely see more rich flavors like this be released throughout the year.

Gen Z Loves The 80s

The patterns, styles and trends of the 80s have made comebacks over recent years, and these days Zoomers are really digging the 1980s. It's not as if those styles are more on point than today's looks; it's more of a yearning, many say, for easier times when all of the modern tech, viruses and pressures didn't yet consume everyone. 

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