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Fire in glovebox at LANL plutonium facility sparks safety discussion
According to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) report, a fire occurred in a glovebox in the plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory on June 15. A test involving nonnuclear material was underway in the furnace inside the glovebox at the time of the incident.
Limin Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. & Univ. Calif., Berkeley), Dalin Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.), Per F. Peterson (Univ. Calif., Berkeley)
Transactions | Volume 118 | Number 1 | June 2018 | Pages 1079-1080
