LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to safely depressurize four containers holding nuclear waste that have been in storage since 2007.

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"We're working to get in front of this safety issue," said Ted Wyka with the Los Alamos National Laboratory Department of Energy. "We want to take care. We want to depressurize, to vent, these drums on our

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