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'Extensive' Oversight of Nuclear Weapons Facilities Not Such a Bad Idea, After All

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By scooby
Anonymously contributed: ------------------------------------------------ 'Extensive' Oversight of Nuclear Weapons Facilities Not Such a Bad Idea, After All, Official Says ------------------------------------------------ POGO's take on last week's hearings: ------------------------------------------------------------- 'The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has considered DOE, and later NNSA, a “high risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement” since 1990. The NNSA has not resolved its “long-standing management problems,” according to the prepared testimony of GAO’s Mark Gaffigan. A pending House defense bill would weaken the government’s ability to oversee nuclear facilities. “In our view, the problems we continue to identify in the nuclear security enterprise are not caused by excessive oversight, but instead result from ineffective oversight,” Gaffigan said.' http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/09/oversight_of_nuclear_weapons_facilities_not_a_bad_idea.html

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Anonymous said…
Sure looks like less funding and more oversight for next year.
Thanks CMRR and B61 for the less funding and nuns and technicium for the more oversight.
9/19/2012 10:36 AM
Anonymous said…
We need more help from do nothing, know nothing bureaucrats.
9/19/2012 6:38 PM
Anonymous said…
Pentagon should take over nuclear plant security: lawmaker -- Reuters, Sep 21, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department should take over security for U.S. nuclear weapons sites after a nuclear complex was broken into with ease in July by an 82-year-old nun and two other peace activists, a top lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Friday.

Mike Turner, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services panel that oversees the Energy Department's nuclear weapons complex, has drafted legislation to put the U.S. military in charge of protecting facilities like the Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

"The fact that this vulnerability is so widely known has got to be addressed," Turner said in an interview.
The Y-12 facility, built after the September 11, 2001, attacks, had been previously touted as "the Fort Knox of uranium" and was supposed to be one of the most secure facilities in the United States.

But in July, the three anti-nuclear activists cut through several fences and vandalized a building which holds the U.S. stockpile of highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear bombs....

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9/21/2012 1:18 PM
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