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bananas

(27,509 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 03:31 AM Oct 2014

Report IDs 'Weaknesses' at Nuclear Weapons Lab

Source: Associated Press

A report issued Wednesday by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Energy squarely places blame for the shutdown of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository on failures at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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The inspector general has outlined several recommendations to correct the lab’s failures, saying changes need to be made before the cleanup of radiological waste continues.

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Watchdog Greg Mello said he was pleased that the latest report identified the lab’s role in causing the contamination and shutdown of the waste repository.

Mello described the violations of well-established procedures by the lab as shocking and said lab officials need to be held accountable for violating their operating permit and causing the leak at the waste repository.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-ids-major-weaknesses-nuclear-arms-lab-25895487

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Report IDs 'Weaknesses' at Nuclear Weapons Lab (Original Post) bananas Oct 2014 OP
How about "let's quit making this nuclear weapon crap" so we don't have any further waste. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #1
Some might feel the Russians and Chinese and North Koreans having nukes.. EX500rider Oct 2014 #2
Worldwide!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #3
Well good luck getting Russians and Chinese and North Koreans on board with that. EX500rider Oct 2014 #4

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
1. How about "let's quit making this nuclear weapon crap" so we don't have any further waste.
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 09:33 AM
Oct 2014

Why do the powerful clutch so tightly to their stupidity?

EX500rider

(10,808 posts)
2. Some might feel the Russians and Chinese and North Koreans having nukes..
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 04:28 PM
Oct 2014

....would make giving up ours a bad idea. (and Pakistan, UK, France, India, Israel and soon Iran)

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
3. Worldwide!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 04:47 PM
Oct 2014

Like I said earlier, petty stupid people who create war and others who condone and participate in war are plainly STUCK ON THE STUPID, unevolved, dimwits, morons...

War makers are ruining this earth because of their violent thieving addiction.

EX500rider

(10,808 posts)
4. Well good luck getting Russians and Chinese and North Koreans on board with that.
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 04:50 PM
Oct 2014

And even then it'd be hard to trust that they really got rid of them.

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