Radioactive work was temporarily stopped at SRS' Savannah River National Laboratory after a series of contamination incidents. (image courtesy of DOE)
Angie French is a spokesperson for the Savannah River Lab. She says the time out was a voluntary way for officials to fine tune safety measures at the lab.
"We are able to maintain our record as the safest national laboratory in the DOE complex because when we see minor events like this we stop and look before it gets to the point where they are major events," said French.
The Savannah River Lab tests thousands of radioactive samples each year for Department of Energy projects such as nuclear waste disposal.
