Oversight board questions nuke lab radiation risk

Published July 11, 2012 9:32pm ET



ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Los Alamos National Laboratory significantly underestimated how much radiation could leak from the nation’s premier plutonium lab after a major earthquake and fire, a federal oversight panel concluded.

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