Los Alamos Director Denies Lab Hid Facts on Leak

摘要

The head of Los Alamos National Laboratory is denouncing a published report that exposed missteps at the lab that played a part in a radiation leak at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository. Lab director Charlie McMillian sent a memo to employees dismissing suggestions that the lab was withholding scientific theories about the Feb. 14 accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. "I want to assure you that nothing is further from the truth," he said in the memo, obtained by The Santa Fe New Mexican.