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Lockheed Martin Nuclear Subsidiary Fined for Paying Lobbyists with Federal Funds　via Time

Posted on 2015/08/24 by norma field

A private corporation that operates a U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory agreed on Aug. 21 to pay the federal government $4.79 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it illegally used taxpayer money to lobby for an extension of its management … Continue reading →

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Los Alamos Gets ‘Inadequate’ Safety Rating from Energy Dept. via Global Security Newswire

Posted on 2014/07/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Energy Department has given a key weapons lab an “inadequate” rating for its latest safety record on “nuclear criticality,” a measure of atomic stability. Los Alamos National Laboratory received the weakest nuclear criticality safety rating of all U.S. nuclear … Continue reading →

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Laser fusion experiment extracts net energy from fuel via Nature

Posted on 2014/02/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Milestone is passed on the long road to fusion energy. Using the world’s most powerful assembly of lasers, a team of researchers say they have, for the first time, extracted more energy from controlled nuclear fusion than was absorbed by … Continue reading →

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