Tag Archives: Oak Ridge

The uranium processing fiasco via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2014/01/11 by norma field

Peter Stockton, Lydia Dennett The Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are up to their old tricks again, convincing Congress and taxpayers alike to spend billions of dollars on yet another poorly designed and mismanaged construction project. … Continue reading →

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Attorneys for Y-12 protester maneuver for reduced sentence; cite 2,000+ letters of support via Knoxblogs.com

Posted on 2014/01/07 by norma field

Attorneys for Michael Walli are seeking a sentence well below the recommended guidelines for the Y-12 protester convicted on felony counts of depredation against government property and sabotage of the national defense. In a memo filed Jan. 4 in U.S. … Continue reading →

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Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah via EcoWatch

Posted on 2013/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical brew. But this nuke calamity will be no fluke. It’s been … Continue reading →

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Oak Ridge 3 Trial Underway via Reader Supported News (Oak Ridge Today)

Posted on 2013/05/07 by norma field

The federal official who oversees production work at two nuclear weapons plants and the guard who was fired after the unprecedented security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex in July could both testify this week during the trial of … Continue reading →

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【video】The nun who broke into a US nuclear-weapons facility via The Washington Post

Posted on 2013/05/01 by norma field

Last year three people broke into one of America’s most secure nuclear-weapons facilities. The perpetrators were an 82-year-old nun and two of her companions. We sat down to talk with Sister Megan Gillespie Rice before she headed to Tennessee to … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Metal from Nuclear Weapons Facilities May End up in Your Shopping Bag via AlterNet

Posted on 2013/02/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

If the Department of Energy gets its way you may up with eye glasses, pacemakers, zippers, braces and more made from our nuclear weapons complex. This story was originally published at WhoWhatWhy. How would you like radioactive metal from nuclear … Continue reading →

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U.S. To Bury Almost All Existing Used Nuclear Fuel; Recycling Deferred At Least 20 Years via Forbes

Posted on 2013/02/01 by norma field

There’s little hope that the 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel dispersed across the United States will ever be recycled, according to a recent study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory—so nearly all existing waste will go into the earth. … Continue reading →

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Exam Said to Be Leaked to Guards at Nuclear Site via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/11/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON — The security guards at a nuclear weapons plant who failed to stop an 82-year-old nun from reaching a bomb fuel storage building earlier this year were also cheating on a recertification exam, according to an internal investigation by … Continue reading →

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Pentagon should take over nuclear plant security: lawmaker via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2012/09/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Defense Department should take over securityfor 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. … Continue reading →

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Judge releases nun who broke into U.S. nuclear bomb facility via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2012/08/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – A U.S. magistrate judge on Friday ordered the release pending trial of an 82-year-old nun and another anti-nuclear activist charged with breaching security fences at one of the most sensitive U.S. nuclear facilities, in Oak Ridge, … Continue reading →

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