nuke lab error contaminates 4 states

meanwhile, the Bush administration's energy bill encourages nuclear power. why should we believe that the operators of a nuke plant that generates 48 tons of waste a year will be able to contain that massive quantity of radioactive material any better than Los Alamos handles its relatively small amount?

Error at lab spreads nuclear material
Contamination from Los Alamos found in 4 states

Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

The apparent mishandling of a potentially hazardous radioactive substance by an employee of the University of California-run Los Alamos National Laboratory has resulted in contamination of sites in four states, according to a report released Monday.

Traces of the substance have been found in homes in Colorado and Kansas that the Los Alamos employee visited, his own home in New Mexico, and also at the Pennsylvania laboratory where the employee apparently shipped a contaminated package via FedEx.
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