Los Alamos National Laboratory
Site in New Mexico (Literary), United States.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe | Wesley Crump | setting | Los Alamos recovered plutonium, stored the drum from 1985, and in 2012-2013 wrote and applied the repackaging procedure that swapped inorganic zeolite for organic wheat cat litter. |
When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe — Wesley Crump (2025)
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It all started at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the labs created as part of the 1940s Manhattan Project that first developed atomic bombs in the desert of New Mexico.
- Role: setting
- In the article: Los Alamos recovered plutonium, stored the drum from 1985, and in 2012-2013 wrote and applied the repackaging procedure that swapped inorganic zeolite for organic wheat cat litter.
- Why it matters: The error that caused the disaster originated here; the wildfire threat in 2011 prompted shipping the waste.