"Troubling ineptitude" in security at U.S. nuclear bomb plant

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Source: Reuters

Guards at a government plant for storing weapons-grade uranium failed to spot activists, including an 82-year-old nun, who cut through its fences until they walked up to an officer's car and surrendered, an official report said on Friday.

The report from the Energy Department's inspector general, Gregory Friedman, criticized multiple failures of sophisticated security systems and "troubling displays of ineptitude" at the plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in July.

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Another officer hearing alarms did not look outside the building as he was supposed to, and also missed an image of the trespassers on a camera. A third officer turned off the alarm.

Others heard the activists hammering on the building's outside wall, but assumed the sound was from maintenance workers.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-security-nuclear-idUSBRE87U0WA20120831

[L0oniX]

1. Your hard earned home land security tax dollars at work!

[AwareOne]

2. Non government employee, PRIVATE security firm

another example of privatization failure. On a related note, several charter schools (the republican answer to public schools) in my area have abruptly closed amid scandal and failing test scores just as the school year is set to begin forcing their students to scramble back into the public school system. Way to go Republicans, this push to privatize everything is really working out!