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Article: LANL worker exposed to radioactive matter.
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2005
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Byline: Andy Lenderman
Jul. 28--Health and nuclear experts have been decontaminating the home of a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee this week after he was exposed to radioactive material while working, the lab reported.
No other workers were contaminated in the employee's lab facility, and there's no risk to the general public, the lab said in a news release late Wednesday.
Lab officials are looking into how and when the contamination occurred, although a response team found "trace amounts" of americium 241 in the employee's car and residence, the lab reported. Americium 241 is a manmade radioactive metal.
It's the first time in ...