National Laboratories

Small fire from faulty LED light bulb self-extinguished at LANL plutonium facility

By Photo of ExchangeMonitor

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility had a fire start from a lightbulb’s melted plastic dripping onto glovebox parts in November, a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report said.
The fire went out before staff could discover it, and was…

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