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Nuclear Modernization

New Contractor to Take Over Main U.S. Nuke Lab Thursday

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018

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New Contractor to Take Over Main U.S. Nuke Lab Thursday

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

Triad National Security is set on Thursday to take over management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, ending a decade-long experiment in running the nation’s oldest nuclear weapons laboratory as a for-profit business.The transition was still on track for Thursday, Triad and Department of energy spokespersons wrote in emails Wednesday.The company — led by the nonprofit trio of Battelle Memorial Institute, longtime Los Alamos manager the University of California, and Texas A&M University — assumes a management…

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