Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Security lapses at nuclear complex identified two years before break-in

Well that just makes you feel all warm and safe inside doesn't it.
I wonder what they really spent the billion dollars on
It's not something I want to think about, but I gotta ask:
Do you think they fixed the problem yet?




Nearly two years before peace activists broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons facility in late July, government investigators warned in classified reports of lax security at the complex where the nation’s largest concentration of weapons-grade uranium is stored.

The previously undisclosed 2010 criticism of the Y-12 National Security Complex near Oak Ridge, Tenn., found that security cameras were inoperable, equipment maintenance was sloppy and guards were poorly trained.


On July 28, an 82-year-old nun, an elderly gardener and a house painter slipped past security costing millions of dollars a year — sensors, cameras, barbed wire, heavy weaponry, roving patrols and dozens of guards — to reach the walls of a new uranium storage facility at Y-12. They splattered blood on the building and held up protest signs before being arrested.

Although the three intruders never got close