Scientists at Los Alamos have been storing their plutonium-tainted waste in a steel pre-fab building. The Nuke Cops are pretty pissed, and just wait till OSHA hears about it.
"Although there were no immediate radiological consequences, unanticipated events (could) have caused unanalyzed and significant exposures to workers and to the public," Linton Brooks, the acting chief of the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote in December in a letter to then-Lab director John Browne.
"PF-185 basically provides a weather-shield and airborne monitoring, but little high wind, missile, or seismic protection," Dr. Charles Keilers, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's representative at Los Alamos, wrote in a memo to colleagues. "Many of (PF-185's) containers (would likely) fail in a fire."
(via Defense Tech)
