U.S. wants to remove plutonium from lab-Security concerns at Livermore...

U.S. wants to remove plutonium from lab
Security concerns at Livermore cited

Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Saturday, May 8, 2004

Washington -- Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Friday he wanted to remove weapons-grade nuclear material from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory because of concerns over the lab's ability to protect radioactive material from terrorists and its location in the densely populated Bay Area.

University of California officials, who manage the weapons lab for the Energy Department, insisted the proposal was only being studied by the agency and that even if it was approved, the removal of the weapons material might be a decade or more away. But Abraham made clear that he saw the storage of plutonium and enriched uranium at Lawrence Livermore as a serious safety issue.

"While the requirements of stockpile stewardship mean that we must retain nuclear materials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory today, over the long term we should look for a better solution," Abraham said during a speech in South Carolina.

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U of C and give it to the U of Texas, I bet.