Our friends in Iraq. Where Americans died. Are now helping Iran skirt the sanctions.
An 82-year old nun and 2 anti-war protestors breached security, were on the premisis undetected for 2 hours, spraypainted a building housing...... a uranium enrichment facility that makes nuclear munitions for every warhead in the country.....
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How Did an 82-Year-Old Nun & 2 Other Anti-War Protesters Breach the ‘Fort Knox for Highly Enriched Uranium’?
- Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:47am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials like to refer to the Y-12 National Security Complex as the Fort Knox for highly enriched uranium, which is why an unprecedented incursion by an 82-year-old nun and two fellow protesters has critics mocking the notion that the weapons plant is secure.
Operations resumed last week after being shut down over the embarrassing incident 18 days earlier. The Department of Energy has called on the contractor that runs the sensitive facility just west of Knoxville to explain why it shouldn’t be replaced.
Y-12 makes uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, dismantles old weapons and is the nation’s primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium.
Officials insist that despite the more than two hours that the protesters went unchallenged on the facility, there was never any danger of them getting to materials that could be detonated on site or used to assemble a dirty bomb.
The Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, or HEUMF, is designed to withstand earthquakes up to a 7.7 magnitude, tornado-force winds of up to 200 mph or the impact of a general aviation aircraft. It could also withstand a ground attack, officials said.
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This is COOL. This pool for Scuba divers in Belgium is 113 feet deep. Has caves and mazes, multiple levels, and a 113 deep pit. I wonder how long and how much this cost to build?
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