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28 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 10:36 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Doug Tucker, Los Alamos fire chief: “We’re doing our best to keep it off the lab”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of the top nuclear weapons research facilities in the US will remain closed until Thursday as fire fighters battle a wildfire raging at its boundary.<\/p>\n

Only “essential-duties” staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be permitted on site on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Officials at the New Mexico facility have said they detected “no off-site releases of contamination”.<\/p>\n

The town outside the laboratory in the state of New Mexico was evacuated on Monday as the fire raged nearby.<\/p>\n

Officials said the nuclear facilities faced “no immediate threat” but warned of damage to houses.<\/p>\n

The lab, opened during World War II, led the development of the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n

By late Monday, the Las Conchas fire had grown to 68 sq miles (176 sq km), burning through forests, canyons, and mesas, fuelled by dry timber and powered by strong winds.<\/p>\n

Authorities warned it could triple in size in the coming days, the Albuquerque Journal reported.<\/p>\n

The fire had reached the lab’s southwestern boundary and leapt a state road onto the land, burning roughly an acre, state fire officials said.<\/p>\n

“No facilities face immediate threat, and all nuclear and hazardous materials are accounted for and protected,” officials said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lab employs about 11,800 people, and about 12,000 people live in the town of Los Alamos.<\/p>\n

“That’s the biggest threat we have right now to homes in the community,” Deputy Los Alamos County Fire Chief Mike Thompson told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The southwestern US has been stricken by giant wildfires this year, with millions of acres scorched in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.<\/p>\n

To the west of New Mexico, the largest wildfire in the history of the state of Arizona has been burning for nearly a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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