[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Nuclear labs may move to Defense Department

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds ponder switching labs to military agency
Bingaman opposes move from Department of Energy

By Sue Vorenberg
Santa Fe New Mexican
February 4, 2009

Sometimes, divorce is a better solution than an ill-advised marriage, 
said C. Paul Robinson, former director of Sandia National Laboratories.

For years as lab director, Robinson supported the idea of keeping the 
nation's nuclear weapons labs and programs under the umbrella of the 
Department of Energy. But after he retired in early 2006, he began to 
re-evaluate the situation, he said.

As he told members of the House Armed Services Committee's Strategic 
Forces Subcommittee last summer, he thinks it's time for Sandia, Los 
Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, along with all 
other nuclear weapons facilities and programs, to be transferred to the 
Department of Defense.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/Feds-ponder-switching-labs-to-military-agency

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Lenny Siegel
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