http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/security-lapses-at-nuclear-complex-identified-two-years-before-break-in/2012/09/11/7cd3d5fa-fc5e-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html By Dana Priest The Washington Post September 11, 2012 Nearly two years before peace activists broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons facility in late July, government investigators warned in classified reports of lax security at the complex where the nation’s largest concentration of weapons-grade uranium is stored. The previously undisclosed 2010 criticism of the Y-12 National Security Complex near Oak Ridge, Tenn., found that security cameras were inoperable, equipment maintenance was sloppy and guards were poorly trained. On July 28, an 82-year-old nun, an elderly gardener and a house painter slipped past security costing millions of dollars a year — sensors, cameras, barbed wire, heavy weaponry, roving patrols and dozens of guards — to reach the walls of a new uranium storage facility at Y-12. They splattered blood on the building and held up protest signs before being arrested. Although the three intruders never got close to the nuclear material, which is kept behind 30-foot concrete walls and hidden gun ports, the break-in was a huge embarrassment for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Energy agency that manages the nuclear weapons stockpile and spends $1 billion a year securing it. [...] -- #HITB2012KUL - The 10TH ANNUAL HITB Security Conference in Malaysia with no keynotes, no labs - just three tracks filled with our most popular speakers from the last decade: http://conference.hitb.org/Received on Wed Sep 12 2012 - 02:07:30 PDT
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