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 labs 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 labs 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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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Why do the powerful clutch so tightly to their stupidity?
EX500rider
(10,808 posts)....would make giving up ours a bad idea. (and Pakistan, UK, France, India, Israel and soon Iran)
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)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)And even then it'd be hard to trust that they really got rid of them.