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LANL contractor 'plugging along' on fixing polluted runoff
Tribune via AOL· 4 months agoFeb. 29—Los Alamos National Laboratory's waste-cleanup contractor has taken about a dozen corrective actions in the past two years to keep storm runoff from carrying toxins from the lab's contaminated ...
Lab contractor cited for 2022 glove box breach
Tribune via AOL· 8 months agoNov. 3—The federal agency that oversees the country's nuclear weapons has issued a preliminary violation notice to Los Alamos National Laboratory's primary contractor for a glove box breach ...
FSU grad named new director of National MagLab in Tallahassee
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 3 months agoKathleen Amm, a Florida State University alumna, has been named the new director of Tallahassee's...
Federal report: LANL has deficiencies in fire safety systems
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 27—A federal report identified deficiencies in Los Alamos National Laboratory's water-pumping system for dousing fires in the technical area that includes the plutonium facility. Faulty ...
'Oppenheimer' stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders
Associated Press via AOL· 11 months agoThe movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development...
Government watchdog says LANL could be doing more to prevent glove box contaminant releases
Tribune via AOL· 2 months agoApr. 17—Los Alamos National Laboratory is not doing all it can to detect radioactive leaks in glove boxes and prevent the release of airborne contaminants, a federal watchdog said in a review ...
How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA composite image showing a nuclear blast, and a logo and promotional writing from the US Atomic...
Los Alamos labs contractor settles state violation; has federal notice for more issues
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis story was originally published by Source New Mexico. As contractors at Los Alamos National Lab resolved allegations of mislabeling hazardous waste in 2020 after a New Mexico Environment ...
Watchdog group says LANL data shows widespread plutonium migration
Tribune via AOL· 2 months agoApr. 25—Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande at least as far as Cochiti Lake and could be in the regional ...
Expert panel formed to advise on cleaning up LANL's toxic plume
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 2 months agoApr. 19—A 15-person independent panel will review efforts to clean up the toxic chromium plume that has lingered deep beneath Los Alamos National Laboratory for a half-century, with the aim ...
