[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, WORKERS: Work crews exposed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radiation on worker’s hands prompts LANL cleanup

By Rebecca Moss
Santa Fe New Mexican
June 15, 2018
 
	
Safety issues arose again at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility last month, the latest in a series of radiation releases and operational mistakes as the site ramps up its work with nuclear material.

On May 16, a crew of pipefitters was stripped and decontaminated after radioactive contamination was found on a worker’s hands, on the crew’s protective clothing and in the work area. The contamination wasn’t discovered until after the job was finished. All pipefitting work was paused.

A week later, members of a separate work crew placed plutonium salts in a prohibited area, resulting in the temporarily loss of their “fissile material handler” certifications.

The incidents were reported in weekly dispatches from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, an independent advisory panel to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/radiation-on-worker-s-hands-prompts-lanl-cleanup/article_f5ddecb8-b5b2-5510-ba93-b6fefaec8668.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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