Editing Los Alamos National Laboratory (section)

==Controversy and criticism==
In 2005, Congress held new hearings on lingering security issues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico; documented problems continued to be ignored.<ref>{{cite news
|last=Attkisson
|first=Sharyl |author-link=Sharyl Attkisson
|date=March 21, 2005
|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/congress-eyes-los-alamos/
|title=Congress Eyes Los Alamos
|work=[[CBS News]]
|access-date=April 14, 2014
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|author= noahmax
|date=March 20, 2005
|url=http://defensetech.org/2005/03/20/more-los-alamos-shenanigans/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616000050/http://defensetech.org/2005/03/20/more-los-alamos-shenanigans/
|url-status=usurped
|archive-date=June 16, 2010
|title=MORE LOS ALAMOS SHENANIGANS
|work=defensetech.org
|access-date=April 14, 2014
}}</ref>

In November 2008, a drum containing nuclear waste was ruptured due to a '[[deflagration]]' according to an [[Office of Inspector General (United States)|inspector general]] report of the Dept. of Energy, which due to lab mistakes, also occurred in 2014 at the [[Waste Isolation Pilot Plant]] near [[Carlsbad, New Mexico]] with significant disruptions and costs across the industry.<ref>Wald, Matthew L. (October 29, 2014). "In U.S. Cleanup Efforts, Accident at Nuclear Site Points to Cost of Lapses ". [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/us/in-us-cleanup-efforts-accident-at-nuclear-site-points-to-cost-of-lapses.html?_r=0 NY Times website] Retrieved January 27, 2017.</ref>

In 2009, 69 computers which did not contain classified information were lost.<ref>{{cite news
|last=Reichbach
|first=Matthew
|date=February 12, 2009
|url=http://newmexicoindependent.com/18263/69-computers-missing-at-lanl
|title=69 Computers Missing at LANL
|work=[[The New Mexico Independent]]
|access-date=December 18, 2012
|archive-date=January 18, 2013
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118104748/http://newmexicoindependent.com/18263/69-computers-missing-at-lanl
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The same year also saw a scare in which 1&nbsp;kg (2.2&nbsp;lb) of missing plutonium prompted a [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] investigation into the laboratory. The investigation found that the "missing plutonium" was a result of miscalculation by LANL's statisticians and did not actually exist; but the investigation did lead to heavy criticism of the laboratory by the DOE for security flaws and weaknesses that the DOE claimed to have found.<ref>
{{cite news
|last=Vartabedian
|first=Ralph
|date=March 26, 2009
|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-26-na-nuke26-story.html
|title=Los Alamos' Security Flaws Exposed
|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]
|access-date=December 18, 2012
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|last=Webb
|first=Greg
|date=February 27, 2009
|url=http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/ts_20090227_5921.php
|title=New Security Lapse at Los Alamos Triggers Angry Response from Energy Department
|work=Global Security Newswire
|publisher=[[NTI]]
|access-date=December 18, 2012
}}</ref>