Oversight chair questions safety at nuke dump

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

The head of a federal nuclear safety oversight board calls the recent truck fire and radiation release from the government's troubled nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico "near misses." And he says operations and safety procedures were not performed with the rigor necessary for a defense nuclear facility.

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