Melted plastic from a light fixture dripped onto the floor and glove box parts in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility, igniting an overnight fire in November. The fire ...

LANL itself has experienced numerous and serious safety accidents, including a plutonium fire, flooding, glove box contamination and a plutonium “criticality” accident, in recent years.

As New Mexico prepares for increased drought and wildfire danger, Los Alamos National Laboratory officials say the lab is ...

In 1969, a highly visible fire at the site’s plutonium processing facility sparked off-site monitoring; at the time, the fire was assumed to be the source of the detected contamination. Later, the ...

Over the last few months, Dr. Ketterer has collected and analyzed plutonium levels from a trailhead ... Mexico worry about what could happen if a fire broke out, warning that the smoke inhaled ...

A wildfire that started at the Hanford site late Wednesday morning was 90% contained 24 hours later, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It had burned an estimated 570 acres. The fire was ...

Those charges alone will get someone locked up for quite a long time—throw in another conviction for trying to offload thousands of pounds of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, and it’s ...