Nuke lab system to cost $41 million to fix

Published November 9, 2012 11:33pm ET



ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The estimate for fixing a new but inoperable $213 million security system at the nation’s nuclear bomb lab has doubled, officials with Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed Friday.

Lab director Charles McMillan sent employees a memo this week saying it will cost an additional $41 million and take six months to fix the system, which has been under construction for seven years and was supposed to be complete this summer.

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