Amid the winter rainstorms that pounding California, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has temporarily curtailed all but essential activity at its experimental test site in the San Francisco Bay Area, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
“Site 300 has been in minimum safe configuration Jan. 4-5 and Jan. 9-11, due to adverse weather and infrastructure conditions on the roadways leading to the site,” a lab spokesperson wrote in an email. “Neither Site 300 nor the Lab’s main site have experienced any notable damage.”
The Site 300 campus, where the lab conducts explosive tests, among others, is about 15 miles south of Livermore.
A series of storms that began in late December have pounded California with wind, snow and rain, leading to flooding, blizzards and widespread evacuations.
