“Safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory”
by Alicia Inez Guzmán , Searchlight New Mexico
July 13, 2023
A history of flooding, earthquake and little fires has plagued LANL, which five years ago began embarking on a controversial mission—to produce an annual quota of plutonium pits, the triggers for nuclear weapons. More recently, an investigation by the National Nuclear Security Administration revealed an environment in which workers were either too underqualified to perform certain tasks or overburdened by too many tasks to perform them well.
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