Clean up starts at laboratory responsible for world’s first atomic bomb.
Technical Area 21, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is being cleared of its buildings and cleaned up with $212 million of federal stimulus money.
During the Manhattan Project, the scientists building the world’s first atomic bomb moved their plutonium processing operations here. Rain and hail fell on a recent morning as workers began the demolition project.
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