After years of pushback from advocacy groups, small amounts of radioactive gas can be released into the air as early as Saturday from waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The ...

The fourth and final flanged tritium waste container at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been depressurized, according to a Tuesday morning post on X from the New Mexico Environment Department. The ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

Depressurization of four containers of tritium waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been postponed until Saturday, due to weather conditions and equipment servicing. Thursday was a "productive ...

An Española-based nonprofit is criticizing Los Alamos National Laboratory over its plans for disposing of radioactive gas. Tewa Women United released two scientific technical reports Tuesday that ...

Do not place broken glassware, glass slides, razor blades, or other sharp objects in lab trash containers. These items pose a unique hazard and must be managed separately. 10-gallon plastic ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Correspondence between Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico regulators shows the lab has failed more than once to accurately label drums of liquid waste shipped to a disposal ...

Biohazardous waste includes waste materials derived from cultures and stocks of infectious agents, human pathological wastes, contaminated animal carcasses and body parts, all sharps, human blood and ...

Most colleges and universities generate hazardous waste and therefore are regulated as hazardous waste generators. Chemical use in laboratories results in the need for disposal of mixed solvents, ...

All hazardous chemical waste containers must be labeled with the contents. Labels are available and instructions are listed on the back. Failure to list the contents can lead to a material becoming an ...