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You are only what you are when no one is looking - Robert C. Edwards
US accidentally reveals nuke sites
JUST IN CASE anyone was wondering where the US stores all of its radioactive materials the government has accidentally stuck a list of all the sites online and provided handy maps.
An Internet posting of a 266-page list of US nuclear sites could prove valuable if the Russians ever get around to restarting the cold war or the Chinese start thinking it might be a good idea to blow up their biggest customer.
Apparently the publication contained no classified material about nuclear weapons and all of the world's intelligence services already knew where the radioactive materials were stored anyway.
However, Energy Secretary Steven Chu admitted to the AP that the whole thing was a bit embarrassing.
A document stamped "highly confidential safeguards sensitive" for some reason unknown to anyone was posted online by the Government Printing Office. It was spotted by web geeks trolling through government documents, probably looking for references to UFOs, and published in a newsletter.
After the list was noticed, the Government Printing Office pulled the document offline straight away.
It looks as if the document might have been compiled for international nuclear inspectors. It is a list of hundreds of civilian nuclear materials storage locations, along with maps and details of the facilities. It includes sites for uranium storage, nuclear fuel fabrication plants and nuclear research facilities.
The list could make it easier for terrorist organisations looking for the raw materials to make a dirty bomb to go shopping, we guess. Publication of the list could also mean that the US will have to spend more to step up security at the sites.
One of them, a storage facility for highly enriched uranium at the Y-12 Oak Ridge complex in Tennessee, looked rather easy to get into. The US Energy Department plans to move that material into a $549 million high-security warehouse that is to be competed next year.
There's been speculation that former Bush administration political appointees who 'burrowed' into the federal civil service system during its final months might have arranged to publish the list in order to embarrass the new administration. But they wouldn't put the country at risk just to gain mere partisan political advantage, would they? µ
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It's not like the Russians and Chinese don't know where the sites are already....
It's not foreign nations that will get their hands on this information that the u.s. government is wary of.
The real problem is if this becomes readily available to the public. They might not take so kindly to the knowledge of the amounts and locations for nuclear storage.
That becomes doubly a problem when there is a push on to revive the nuclear power industry.
The current government is more than capable of emabrasing itslef without this.
Especially after the aproximately $1,000,00 date night that Obama took.
Heh, big deal, so everyone now knows where the US government keeps nuclear material.
They still have no idea where MY stash is hidden. What's that, FBI? What stash? I don't know anything about that, really!
If only one country on the globe would have nukes, then if would use them, do you realize [as proof] that with currents pushing intercontinental pollution, it doesn't matter. The earth is round and the ills of one country is everybody else's. Launching any weapons as a matter of fact like the world wars all the dead can cause and spread pestilence all around. Hey it's easy to kill? But it's not easy to bury, to disinfect!
WAR is dirty, any man declaring it Holy or good doesn't make any less dirty.
If I would stumble on such a file, I'd just delete it. I wouldn't be worried about it, justice also gets around like a snake eating it's own tail.
I kept hearing that the government would be more transparent... at least Obama kept one promise.
Wonder how his promise to step up efforts in Afghanistan is going. Perhaps NBC can do a special on that instead of following the president around like a 2nd puppy.
obama is a moron, he doesn't need help from the bush admin. why post this tidbit at the end of your story. is it true? or a dumbwitted smear of some kind?
Great... Now I know where to plant my tomatoes... !
Bolivia IS Nation thats Estimated to Hold 50,000 tones of Urianium Available Right Now Acording to israelis, & Destined for Iran. So Say muck Rakers.
As Peron in 7 group asked, Today was 590 M2R32 AVP Ultiem that machine that took X2 ner Vista R/c or broke it, firing uP again & doing 7 for third dance. Got it about into Dock. While abit AV32 IS On Table, Gettting connected. Leaving 1 DOA, 1-Busted, 1- NO HDD Possible, yet does fine Mephis, & Presnt, now 2 years Old 690. So closing out test beds, Sub Nucleating & Approaching fission With entirely third eye.
"There's been speculation that former Bush administration..."
Wow, you must go through a LOT of tinfoil each day...
Probably a reasonable outcome to the stupidity foisted on us by the Clinton regime and become entrenched mindest by underlings afterwards.
Strict security was once kept on so many things but was virtually abandoned (ie- Clinton and that Red Chinese Spy Cirucs in the WhiteHouse itself)
Has anyone been fired over this??
Any plans to make sure it wont happen again??
I know that such security really isnt of interest to the current regime, but shouldnt there be a few people left in our government with even an ounce of common sense ???