A government report says titanium fragments that caused a nuclear waste drum to throw off sparks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico should never have been packed.
The fragments are also prohibited at the underground disposal site near Carlsbad.
Managers at both the lab and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant failed to screen out the titanium, which is on WIPP’s list of prohibited materials, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said in its most recent report according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
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