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Security, Safety Lapses Disclosed At Los Alamos

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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By George Lobsenz In a new flurry of all-too-familiar security and safety problems at the Energy Department nuclear weapons facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory last week acknowledged the loss of three computers and a Blackberry device and the belated discovery that some 2,000 current and former workers and visitors to the lab may have been unknowingly exposed to toxic beryllium. As has been in the case in previous security incidents at Los Alamos, word of the missing computers and Blackberry…

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