ANN ARBOR, MI – Plans to bring a research center tied to one of the country’s largest nuclear weapons laboratories to southeast Michigan is drawing sharp scrutiny.
The proposed University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory site would be located in Ypsilanti Township — either near Textile Road east of Bridge Road and south of the Huron River, or at the Willow Run American Center for Mobility. The $1.2 billion “high-performance computing facility” would support nuclear weapons research through advanced computer simulations.
Inside Los Alamos’s labs, engineers and scientists are working to remodel the United States’ batch of nuclear weapons. Because the U.S. has not conducted a live nuclear weapons testing since 1992, scientists have limited options on how to study the weapons’ capability…