Posted on 12/06/2014 6:50:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
The state’s Environment Department found New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory had committed two dozen violations of rules and regulations related to the packaging of plutonium wastes that later erupted in the underground dump near Carlsbad, N.M.
The incident badly contaminated the repository, resulting in a shutdown that will probably last two years. The state issued a $36.6-million fine against the lab, which is operated by a consortium that includes San Francisco-based Bechtel and the University of California, among others.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Well....
No, ACORN will get the judgement/settlement money.
Nuclear energy of any type forbares neither arrogance nor ignorance.
Implosion at Los Alamos: How Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Ups Jeopardize America’s Nuclear Weapons Secrets Paperback – May 3, 2010
by Glenn A. Walp (Author)
Implosion At Los Alamos is a frightening exposé that reveals failed security, crime, mismanagement, cover-ups and corruption at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Ground Zero for America’s strongest defense against rogue nations and terroristic entities — at least it should be. Former Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Glenn Walp was hired by ‘’the lab’’ to investigate crime and lapsed security that plagued the lab post-9/11. Walp uncovered the theft/loss of over $3 million in taxpayer property, including nearly 400 computers that potentially housed nuclear secrets. Certain lab leaders, concerned that public exposure of these and other administrative and criminal debacles could jeopardize the lab’s lucrative government contract, opposed his efforts at every turn. Notwithstanding, Walp and his two partners remained dauntless, exposing to the world the real and present danger to America’s nuclear secrets.
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Found it at the local library. Security was horrible.
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