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Article: UC system needs to debate Los Alamos' management
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- June 2, 2006
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Dane Swango
University Wire
06-02-2006
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- As of June 1, responsibility for Los Alamos National Laboratory, which created the first atomic bomb and now conducts national security science research, will no longer rest solely in the hands of the University of California, which has managed the lab since its creation during World War II. Instead, it will be managed by a consortium composed of the UC and three industry partners, operating under a seven-year contract.
Given the lab's $2.2 billion yearly budget, the crucial research the laboratory performs in ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, and the possibility that ...