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

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."

Comments

Why even secure it?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Slashdot. Nuclear material is perfectly safe, in fact it's quite delicious, and unless we build new reactors for every single suburb, in ten years we will be living in an apocolyptic world with no electricity.

Nuns, more steath than a navy SEAL

[TiggertheMad]

Why the explicit blame on "private security contractors"? Why not fire any private company who is not doing their job and find one that can/will?

Why is this being handled by private security at all? I pay taxes to give young, trigger happy marines the state of the fucking art tools for committing mass murder in the most efficient way possible. Why aren't there a ring of marines surrounding this place with orders to kill ANYTHING that doesn't come through the main gate with orders signed in triplicate?

Military weapon fuel, military security.