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  • Teaneck laboratory is fined for losing uranium shipment

    11/03/2005 10:29:05 AM PST · by Calpernia · 2 replies · 130+ views
    northjersey.com ^ | Thursday, November 3, 2005 | By ALEX NUSSBAUM
    A Teaneck laboratory must pay a $3,250 federal fine for losing a tiny shipment of enriched uranium last spring, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Wednesday. The fine against Ledoux & Co. comes after the lab accidentally tossed 3.3 ounces of nuclear material in the trash, setting off a federal and state search that stretched to landfills around the mid-Atlantic. (snip) The Alfred Avenue lab reported the uranium-235 missing in mid-April, after receiving a drum filled with seven canisters of the nuclear fuel bound for a university reactor. Ledoux had been hired to test the material's purity. An NRC investigation...