Stuff you need to know, 7.13.23

“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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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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