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LANL Resumes Some Machining Activity at Plutonium Facility

By Photo of Brian Bradley

Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
8/28/2015
Some operations at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Plutonium Facility have resumed following approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Field Office last month, according to a…

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