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Nature 423, 104 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423104b

Los Alamos contract open to bids

Geoff Brumfiel

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are facing an uncertain future after the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will accept bids from new contractors to run the lab. For the whole of its 60-year history, the nuclear-weapons laboratory has been managed by the University of California.