U.C. sovereignty

Founded to undertake the Manhattan project, the Los Alamos National Laboratory today is managed and run by teams of scientists from the University of California. A pattern of recurring nuclear safety violations involving "improper handling" of radioactive substances in 2005 caused federal nuclear safety regulators to charge the University of California with a $1.1 million penalty, the largest penalty ever assessed by the federal government.
However the University will have not have to pay the penalty,
because the 15 safety violations cited by the National Nuclear Security Administration date to 2005, when UC ran the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico as a non-profit. As a non-profit, the university was exempt by Congress from paying civil penalties for safety violations. Last year, the university was made to share management of the lab with a team of corporations, meaning it would have to pay fines for any future violations.
Yes, today the sovereign city-state of the University of California rejoices in its for-profit partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory where it now, thankfully, is much more difficult to enable access to such federal investigations.
