N2NH
08-18-2012, 04:25 PM
An 82 year-old nun was one of three people who spent two hours moving about the insides of an extremely sensitive federal nuclear facility. Apparently they had free run of the place while they were there...
) — Officials like to refer to the Y-12 National Security Complex as the Fort Knox for highly enriched uranium, which is why an unprecedented incursion by an 82-year-old nun and two fellow protesters has critics mocking the notion that the weapons plant is secure.Operations resumed last week after being shut down over the embarrassing incident 18 days earlier. The Department of Energy has called on the contractor that runs the sensitive facility just west of Knoxville to explain why it shouldn't be replaced.
Y-12 makes uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, dismantles old weapons and is the nation's primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium.
That's right, an 82 year-old nun managed to break into a secure complex. We're doomed.
Intrusion embarrasses 'Fort Knox of uranium' (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-18/intrusion-embarrasses-fort-knox-of-uranium)
Yet another incidence where we just know all those who say "Nukes are safe" are completely right.
) — Officials like to refer to the Y-12 National Security Complex as the Fort Knox for highly enriched uranium, which is why an unprecedented incursion by an 82-year-old nun and two fellow protesters has critics mocking the notion that the weapons plant is secure.Operations resumed last week after being shut down over the embarrassing incident 18 days earlier. The Department of Energy has called on the contractor that runs the sensitive facility just west of Knoxville to explain why it shouldn't be replaced.
Y-12 makes uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, dismantles old weapons and is the nation's primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium.
That's right, an 82 year-old nun managed to break into a secure complex. We're doomed.
Intrusion embarrasses 'Fort Knox of uranium' (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-18/intrusion-embarrasses-fort-knox-of-uranium)
Yet another incidence where we just know all those who say "Nukes are safe" are completely right.