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• Protecting People And The Environment
  
  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC was created as an independent agency by Congress in 1974 to enable the nation to safely use radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while ensuring that people and the environment are protected ...
  http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
  It takes only eight kilogramsless than 18 poundsof plutonium to construct a weapon that creates an explosion the size of the blasts of atomic bombs used in World War II. To prevent the theft or illicit transport of nuclear materials, the Laboratory i ...
  http://www.lanl.gov/natlsecurity/threat/nonprolif/