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Article: Auditor claims he was demoted after pointing out safety concerns at Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab
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- February 10, 2005
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HEATHER CLARK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-10-2005
Dateline: ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico
A quality assurance auditor at Los Alamos National Laboratory said that he was demoted in retaliation for audits that were critical of lab safety and security practices.
In a complaint Wednesday to the U.S. Labor Department, Don Brown said he was hired in May 2003 to conduct safety audits on facilities and procedures at the nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico.
He said he was involved with two major audits beginning in June 2003 before he was demoted in the fall of 2004.
The first audit found that more than half of the welds inspected in the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building, one of the ...