Last year LANL hired 2,500 workers, the most ever, but that growth is expected to slow even as the lab works toward manufacturing 30 plutonium pits a year for warheads.
In response to an article that criticized the nuclear ban treaty, a group of activists argue that a process to abolish nuclear weapons is vital to world safety. From scholarly analyses to known close calls and near misses, they argue, the message is clear: The world has avoided nuclear war only through luck.
It s the second lab employee in as many weeks to have their skin contaminated in a work area where sealed compartments are being dismantled so new machinery can be installed.
KUNM | By Alice Fordham, https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2024-01-08/the-mystery-of-a-truchas-woman-who-died-with-extraordinary-amounts-of-plutonium-in-her-body With the release of the movie Oppenheimer last year, there has been a resurgence of interest in the history of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. But for writer Alicia Inez Guzmán at the investigative nonprofit Searchlight New Mexico, that interest has been there for years as she has covered the past…