82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 2, 2012 @08:12AM from the just-read-the-headline-again dept.

Lasrick writes "Private security contractors strike again, this time at the Y-12 National Security Complex. A nun, a gardener, and a housepainter cut through three security fences to find themselves 20 feet away from highly dangerous nuclear material. And of course, only one guard has been fired (the one who arguably acted the bravest and did the right thing). A Department of Energy report (PDF) on the incident found 'troubling displays of ineptitude in responding to alarms, failures to maintain critical 2 security equipment, over reliance on compensatory measures, misunderstanding of security protocols, poor communications, and weaknesses in contract and resource management.' The contractors have been put on notice, (PDF), but they still have the contracts."

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Re:OK, seriously ... by Jiro · 2012-10-02 11:03 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Based on the fact that the primary source is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, I believe the government contractor over the nun. I can't believe that nobody here has heard of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists before--it's a left-wing advocacy group that opposes nuclear weapons. Obviously it's in their interests to make the intruders look as good as possible and the US as bad as possible.
They're also the same people that produce the doomsday clock, which says that we're now closer to nuclear armageddon than we were in the entire 1960-1980 time period.