LANL Still ‘Investigating’ Potential Employee Plutonium Intake

The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is still investigating whether any of 15 employees working on plutonium-238 oxide were internally contaminated with the material last month after the apparent puncture of a glove-box glove.
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