Here’s a scary story: Guards responsible for securing the nation’s
premier nuclear weapons laboratory cheat on security knowledge tests
with the help of the U.S. government agency that operates the facility.
Even scarier is how this widespread cheating was discovered at a facility— the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the feds claim has the “most stringent security in the world.” In fact, the compound is often referred to as the “Fort Knox of Uranium.”
A few months ago an 82-year-old Catholic nun along with two other seniors managed to penetrate the facility and go undetected by security for two hours. The nun, a renowned antinuclear activist, and her pals—one 63 and the other 57—were armed with flashlights and bolt cutters. Once inside, the trio of protesters splashed blood around the nuclear complex and hung banners outside its walls.
The shameful breach fueled calls for an internal investigation. After all, the Y-12 National Security Complex is the country’s main storage facility for bomb-grade uranium and it makes uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Old weapons are also dismantled at the compound, which claims to “maintain the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.”
Read more: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/11/feds-help-guards-at-nuclear-weapons-lab-cheat-on-security-test/
Even scarier is how this widespread cheating was discovered at a facility— the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the feds claim has the “most stringent security in the world.” In fact, the compound is often referred to as the “Fort Knox of Uranium.”
A few months ago an 82-year-old Catholic nun along with two other seniors managed to penetrate the facility and go undetected by security for two hours. The nun, a renowned antinuclear activist, and her pals—one 63 and the other 57—were armed with flashlights and bolt cutters. Once inside, the trio of protesters splashed blood around the nuclear complex and hung banners outside its walls.
The shameful breach fueled calls for an internal investigation. After all, the Y-12 National Security Complex is the country’s main storage facility for bomb-grade uranium and it makes uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Old weapons are also dismantled at the compound, which claims to “maintain the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.”
Read more: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/11/feds-help-guards-at-nuclear-weapons-lab-cheat-on-security-test/
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