Nation IN BRIEF : NEW MEXICO : Sexual Organs Held in Frozen Limbo

Hundreds of testes and ovaries from people who lived near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado have been in freezers for about 15 years, part of a plutonium-testing study that ran out of money, the Albuquerque Tribune reported. The body parts, obtained from autopsies with relatives’ permission, are from a 1975 study to determine whether the people had more plutonium in their bodies than people living elsewhere. The body parts sat in freezers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. About two months ago, they were sent to Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, where there are hopes for funding to conduct the plutonium testing.