Regulators Squelching U.S. Nuke Reliability Tests: Ex-Los Alamos Chief

Regulators Squelching U.S. Nuke Reliability Tests: Ex-Los Alamos Chief

Regulatory activities intended n part to reduce the likelihood of nuclear weapon-related accidents have prevented the Los Alamos National Laboratory from carrying out studies critical to evaluating the reliability of the increasingly old plutonium fuel in U.S. nuclear armaments, a former director of the New Mexico facility told the Albuquerque Journal in comments reported on Tuesday (see GSN, Feb. 16).