Federal employees and Los Alamos officials have started meeting to discuss an ambitious plan: to create a new national park scattered across three different states and dedicated to the history of the atomic bomb.
Employees from the National Park Service and Department of Energy met with leaders in Los Alamos this week to begin tackling the challenges of designing facing the proposed Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
In addition to being located in non-contiguous sites, parts of the park are currently in secured technical areas off limits to the public at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation and Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
And so far, the project is unfunded.
Despite the obstacles, DOE and NPS employees say they remain optimistic about the park.
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Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
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