Cleanup work, which will stop any further contamination, begins this month. BNFL also pointed out the stringent safety tests it had carried out on the containers involved, and that test flights had not been carried out in secrecy as alleged. The US Senate has confirmed the selection of Elizabeth Anne Moler as Deputy Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy. A Greenpeace report that plutonium from underground nuclear tests had reached the surface at the test site in Alaska was incorrect, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have concluded. Results from tests of the Greenpeace samples conducted at Los Alamos suggest that the plutonium is fallout from atmospheric tests conducted elsewhere.
More samples are to be collected and further tests performed.
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