Robert Alvarez, 76, Dies; Called Attention to Nuclear-Waste Safety

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A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of atomic weapons.

Robert Alvarez, a self-taught expert on nuclear power, nuclear weapons and the waste that both produce who worked for decades as an activist outside the government and, during the 1990s, as a high-ranking official within it, died on July 1 in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 76.

His daughter Amber Alvarez Torgerson said he died in an assisted living facility from complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Mr. Alvarez did not set out to become a key voice in the campaign to clean up America’s vast and deadly network of nuclear-waste sites. As a young legislative aide for Senator James Abourezk, a Democrat from South Dakota, in the mid-1970s, he focused mainly on American Indian affairs.

But after meeting with a group of Navajos whose decades of labor in uranium mines had left

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