Weapons-grade nukes moved from Los Alamos
The federal government has finished moving its most sensitive weapons-grade nuclear material from a Los Alamos National Laboratory technical area to more secure sites, a lab spokesman said Thursday.
The weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium are no longer within the lab’s Technical Area 18, a site at the bottom of a steep canyon that critics said was vulnerable to a terrorist attack. The first shipment was moved a little over a year ago.
The transfers were driven by changing threats following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and cost-saving efforts, lab spokesman Kevin Roark said.
Source: Boston.com News.
There are currently no comments on this thread.