Air Pollution Nevada

Where do air pollutants go to "get away from it all?" In Los Angeles, they head for the desert. Researchers from St. Louis, Reno and San Diego have found that industrial chemicals released in the Los Angeles Basin show up in the Nevada and Arizona deserts one to two days later.

Where do air pollutants go to "get away from it all?" In Los Angeles, they head for the desert. Researchers from St. Louis, Reno and San Diego have found that industrial chemicals released in the Los Angeles Basin show up in the Nevada and Arizona deserts one to two days later.

Enough plutonium to build seven nuclear bombs has escaped into the air ducts of the federal government's Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility here over the last 38 years, federal officials said. The 62 pounds of plutonium is spread throughout 6,000 feet of air ducts and "does not pose a health risk to workers at the plant or to public health," said Pat Etchart, a spokesman for the Department of Energy.

Enough plutonium to build seven nuclear bombs has escaped into the air ducts of the federal government's Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility here over the last 38 years, federal officials said. The 62 pounds of plutonium is spread throughout 6,000 feet of air ducts and "does not pose a health risk to workers at the plant or to public health," said Pat Etchart, a spokesman for the Department of Energy.