LANL ships `special´ nuclear material by air cargo
(WorldNews Mexico)

Greg Mello of the Albuquerque-based Los Alamos Study Group advocacy and research organization said in an interview that “special nuclear material� refers to material “unique to the nuclear weapons world … basically isotopes used in nuclear explosives.� The National Nuclear Safety Administration said LANL has disclosed “that proper procedures were not followed in shipping small quantities of special nuclear material� to both Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, and the Savannah River National Laboratory, in South Carolina. The material was shipped last week. The head of the NNSA said sending it by air instead of using a ground cargo...