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Lab hosts 12th annual HAZMAT Challenge
July 14 — Fourteen teams are scheduled to participate in the 12th annual HAZMAT Challenge taking place July 15 – 18 at the Laboratory’s HAZMAT Training Facility at Technical Area 49.
Laboratory installing 'sentinel well'
May 3 — The Laboratory has taken the next step toward protecting Los Alamos drinking water from byproducts of a chromium-based corrosion inhibitor that was discharged into the environment more than three decades ago.
Laboratory hosts HAZMAT Challenge
July 20 — Sixteen teams will compete in the 10th Annual HAZMAT Challenge designed to test hazardous materials response skills.
Two workers affected by chemical fumes
August 10 — Two Los Alamos National Laboratory employees recently inhaled fumes from a corrosive chemical, resulting in the hospitalization of one employee.
Laboratory announces organizational changes
October 12 — As part of efforts to strengthen laboratory operations and the senior management team, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director George P. Nanos today announced a reorganization of his senior management team and the Laboratory's Operations Directorate. Effective October 13, 2004, the Operations Directorate will be split into two directorates that will provide enhanced services and functions to the Laboratory.
2003 Hazmat Challenge features Chem/Bio weapons response
August 18 — The largest field of contestants, including for the first time teams from outside New Mexico, and an action-packed schedule of events highlight the 2003 New Mexico State Hazmat Challenge, Aug. 19 through 22 at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
DOE-LASO, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Los Alamos County reach agreement on traffic control enforcement
July 16 — The Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos Site Office, and the County of Los Alamos have reached an agreement that allows county police officers to resume enforcement of state and local traffic laws on NNSA owned roadways in and around the Laboratory. The Memorandum of Agreement was ratified by the Los Alamos County Council last evening.
New fire danger requires new emergency response
May 16 — Due to unique forest conditions, this fire season has Los Alamos County, Los Alamos Schools and Laboratory emergency managers recommending that evacuation as a protective action during wildfire may not be the way to go. Instead, they are advocating "shelter-in-place" as a way to safely ride out this year's potential fires, which are anticipated to be small, hot and fast.
Criticality accidents report issued
July 19 — Since 1945 there have been 60 criticality accidents world-wide with varying levels of severity, from the most recent, a September 1999 accident in Japan that resulted in the deaths of two workers, to the very first fatal accident during the WWII Manhattan Project.
Lab's Institutional Biosafety Committee to meet
April 2 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Institutional Biosafety Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The meeting, which is open to the public, will take place in the auditorium of the Health Research Laboratory, located next to Los Alamos Medical Center.
Small amount of tritium released at Technical Area 16
January 31 — An accidental release of tritium occurred at 9:15 a.m. (MST) today (Wednesday) at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Technical Area 16, site of the Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility (WETF).
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