The head of Los Alamos National Laboratory is denouncing a published report that exposed missteps at the lab that had played a part in a radiation leak at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports lab director Charlie McMillian sent a memo to employees earlier this week.
In it, he dismisses suggestions that the lab was hiding scientific theories about the Feb. 14 accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
The newspaper's initial report was based on interviews and thousands of documents and emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Some emails expressed outrage from WIPP officials about what they weren't told by Los Alamos lab.
The Department of Energy is expected to release a final report on the WIPP leak before the end of the year.
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