University of Texas explores bid to manage nuclear lab

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The University of Texas is among the educational and business institutions considering bids to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The university system’s regents recently approved spending up to $4.5 million to prepare a bid to run the northern New Mexico facility.
The birthplace of the atomic bomb and still one of the nation’s premier nuclear research facilities, the lab has struggled in recent years with a string of safety lapses involving the hand