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On today’s first Underreported, WNYC’s own Bob Hennelly reports on the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to close the Environmental Measurements Laboratory--a federal nuclear detection lab in Manhattan that was started in 1947--as part of a larger effort to cut costs. And we discuss last week’s Congressional hearings (which addressed the lab’s future), and whether the lab’s fate is tied to a larger shift toward privatizing science.