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Livermore Lab Director Budil Arrested For Driving Under the Influence, Speeding

Wednesday, September 28th, 2022

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Livermore Lab Director Budil Arrested For Driving Under the Influence, Speeding

Kimberly Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), admitted last week to all hands at the California nuclear-weapons design lab that she had been arrested for driving under the influence and speeding. Budil, the first woman to run Livermore, has been director of the younger of the two U.S. weapon-design labs for about a year-and-a-half. She took over from William Goldstein on March 3, 2021. “I am profoundly sorry for this terrible mistake,” Budil wrote in a statement…

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