MISLABELED SHIPMENTS

Documents show that Los Alamos National Laboratory has been a repeat offender in mislabeling its shipments of hazardous materials.

In total, 11 of the 25 known

shipping mistakes since early 2010 involved shipments that either originated at Los Alamos or passed through the lab.

Some of the mislabeled

shipments went to toxic waste dumps and breached regulatory limits on what the dumps were allowed to accept. Thirteen of the 25 incidents involved plutonium, highly enriched uranium or other radioactive materials.