U. of Cal. to Run Los Alamos Laboratory

(Wow! This is a surprise.)

By HEATHER CLARK

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - The University of California has retained the contract to manage the troubled Los Alamos National Laboratory, The Associated Press learned Wednesday.

The contract to run the nation's pre-eminent nuclear lab had gone out to bid earlier this year for the first time in the lab's 63-year history.

A government official in a position to know the results of the competition for the contract told the AP that UC had prevailed. The university will jointly manage the seven-year contract with Bechtel Corp.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman was set to formally announce the decision at a news conference in Washington scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051221/D8EKPC38T.html

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See eg: http://www.greatdreams.com/political/bechtel.htm

Story I heard, there was strrong support for moving the contract over to Texas U.

But this will keep tactical and other future nuke development in the right family just the same...