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Jeff Bingaman's message to Los Alamos National Laboratory was right on: The New Mexico senator, who visited the lab last week, restated his long-held vision of the place as the vanguard of scientific research -- into something besides more nuclear weapons.
He praised the assembled scientists and engineers for their work with the international Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to ratchet down the menace of nuclear warfare and noted that the lab is working on hydrogen fuel cells and safer forms of nuclear-energy generation. But Bingaman for years has touted -- and encouraged -- creative thinking in civilian science, medical technology and the like.See the full content of this document
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He wants more.
For a few years in the late 1980s and early '90s, the lab played Bingaman's tune; whet...See the full content of this document
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