Los Alamos cited for plutonium exposure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Los Alamos cited for safety violation

Oakland Tribune (CA)
July 2, 2004

The U.S. Department of Energy cited the University of California for
safety violations at Los Alamos National Laboratory for an incident last
summer in which two workers inhaled plutonium. 

The workers were conducting an inventory of cans of plutonium residue on
Aug. 5, 2003, at the main plutonium processing facility when an alarm
sounded, the lab said. 

The workers evacuated the room, but medical exams showed skin
contamination with the radioactive metal and evidence that both had
inhaled plutonium. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2248575,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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