
Los Alamos National Laboratory blamed a new type of glovebox glove for a June 8 incident that exposed at least one person, and likely more, to radioactive contamination from plutonium 238, the independent federal Defense Nuclear Nuclear Facilities Safety Board reported. Alarms sounded in Los Alamos' PF-4 Plutonium Facility after a lab Actinide Material Processing and Power, Heat Source Technologies (AMPP) employee, who was packaging some plutonium 238 oxide in a glovebox, withdrew his hand from a glovebox glove. That…