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Chu Warned On Plutonium Stored At Los Alamos

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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

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By George Lobsenz A federal safety oversight board has warned Energy Secretary Steven Chu in unusually strong terms about significant unresolved issues with cooling systems for intensely radioactive plutonium-238 containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, saying lab officials have failed to address the problems even though the systems are needed to prevent "one of the lab's highest consequence accident scenarios." The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), which oversees safety at DoE nuclear facilities, told Chu in a letter last…

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