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 goal is to move the four containers to a different location for permanent disposal. But there's pressure building in them and a risk for a flammable, pressurized mix of hydrogen and oxygen within them. If too much pressure builds up, there could be an uncontrolled release of the radioactive gas.

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