U. of California Might Lose Los Alamos Contract Over Security Breaches

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said last week that he may terminate the contract of the University of California to run Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the wake of the loss and subsequent recovery of two computer hard drives believed to contain nuclear secrets.

"They're a great institution, but on security -- it's very clear in the contract they're in charge of security -- cooperating with headquarters, they haven't done a good job. I'm evaluating that,"

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