A top nuclear laboratory in the United States is at risk from wildfires because some mitigation measures have been ignored in recent years, an audit found. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) inspector general said the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico is prone to “future large, high-intensity wildfires that could threaten to seriously interrupt mission work,” as a large fire did in 2000. The Cerro Grande Fire that year burned over 7,500 acres of department land, damaging or destroying over 100 structures and ruining a variety of lab projects and scientific records and forcing the lab to close for 15 days. Another wildfire in 2011, the Las Conchas Fire, burned an acre of department land and its intensity and proximity to the lab forced it to close for nine days. In light of the fires, the inspector general undertook an audit to see whether its Los Alamos office and …