No Timeline Yet for Restart of Operations at LANL Plutonium Facility

Todd Jacobson
NS&D Monitor
9/12/2014
It doesn’t appear that Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Facility will be fully operational any time soon, according to information released this week. Work at the facility was shut down in June …

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