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                    [Title] => National lab reports violations of hazardous waste permit
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An extensive review at one of the nation's premier federal laboratories has turned up violations in how the lab handled hundreds of containers of radioactive waste over the past decade.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-05 14:42:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759617 [AuthorName] => Susan Montoya Bryan [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1424015 [Title] => Things to know about the federal government's nuke dump [Summary] =>

Valentine's Day 2014 was coming to a close. There were fewer than a dozen workers holding down the night shift at the federal government's nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-15 02:21:39 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759617 [AuthorName] => Susan Montoya Bryan [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => 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] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1324558 [Title] => Los Alamos container linked to nuke dump leak [Summary] =>

A radiation leak at the government's troubled nuclear waste dump has been linked to a waste container shipped from Los Alamos National Laboratory, officials said Friday, raising questions about the safety of other barrels being stored on the lab's northern New Mexico campus and at a temporary site in West Texas.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-18 03:47:45 [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] => ) ) )
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