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Light penalties and lax oversight encourage weak safety culture at nuclear weapons labs

by Public Editor July 2, 2017

The plan on a hot summer day was to liquefy highly flammable lithium at a temperature of more than 750 degrees and then pump it into a special chamber for cooling, as part of a research project at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.  But what happened instead in August 2011 was a near-catastrophe that […]

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