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                    [Title] => Scientist offers to build nuke bomb targeting New York
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A disgruntled, former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist promised to build 40 nuclear weapons for Venezuela in 10 years and design a bomb targeted for New York City in exchange for "money and power," according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-29 09:36:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1726338 [AuthorName] => Russel Contreras [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20150129/pedro-leonardo-scientist-nukes.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1408455 [Title] => Feds deny performance pay to nuke dump operator [Summary] =>

The contractor that runs the federal government's underground nuclear waste repository is being denied millions of dollars in performance pay as part of the financial fallout from a radiation leak that forced the closure of the facility.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-01 06:51:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1400092 [Title] => Mishaps at nuke repository lead to $54M in fines [Summary] =>

New Mexico on yesterday levied more than $54 million in penalties against the US Department of Energy for numerous violations that resulted in the indefinite closure of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-07 06:23:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759617 [AuthorName] => Susan Montoya Bryan [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1325630 [Title] => New Mexico says 57 nuke containers could be threat [Summary] =>

Los Alamos National Laboratory packed 57 barrels of nuclear waste with a type of kitty litter believed to have caused a radiation leak at the federal government's troubled nuclear waste dump, posing a potentially "imminent" and "substantial" threat to public health and the environment, New Mexico officials said Monday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-21 03:17:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1378942 [AuthorName] => Jeri Clausing [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1308340 [Title] => Los Alamos resumes nuclear-waste shipments [Summary] =>

Los Alamos National Laboratory, under a tight deadline to get nuclear waste off its northern New Mexico campus before wildfire season peaks, has begun trucking containers to temporary storage in west Texas while the government's only permanent nuclear dump remains shuttered by a radiation leak.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-03 05:48:11 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1299623 [Title] => Air testing at nuclear dump shows no contamination [Summary] =>

New air testing in the nation's only underground nuclear repository showed no detectable radioactive contamination from a leak last month, the US Department of Energy said Sunday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-11 02:41:50 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 841221 [Title] => Watchdogs question plans for excess plutonium [Summary] =>

Nuclear watchdogs are questioning a proposal to ship tons of plutonium to New Mexico, including the cores of nuclear warheads that would be dismantled at an aging and structurally questionable lab atop a major earthquake fault zone.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-23 04:01:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 620537 [Title] => New scanner aims to make liquids on planes safer [Summary] =>

The latest airport security technology being developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory could open the door for airline passengers to bring their soft drinks and full-size shampoo bottles on board again.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-14 15:20:03 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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