Chu: We Will Look Into Nuclear Site Security
A 266-page document was released that showed the locations of sensitive nuclear sites
Following revelations yesterday that the U.S. government accidentally published online a confidential report containing detailed information about the country's civilian nuclear sites and programs, Energy Secretary Steven Chu this morning said the Department of Energy is making extra efforts to ensure the security of the nation's nuclear sites.
Appearing before a House subcommittee, where he was testifying about budget issues, Chu said his understanding of the incident "is that someone made a mistake, probably at the government printing office, and released sensitive information."
The report, Chu noted, included a list with locations for spent nuclear fuel storage and "information on where some high-level uranium...is in our sites," such as within tunnels at certain federal government laboratories, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
"That is of great concern," Chu said. "We will be looking hard and making sure the physical security of those lab sites is sufficient to prevent people, terrorists, others from getting hold of that material."
Chu added: "That's all I can say at the moment."
According to reports, the 266-page government document, which was being prepared by the United States for the International Atomic Energy Agency, offers a detailed accounting of the country's civilian nuclear reactors and waste storage facilities.
Experts say much of this information, though sensitive, was already publicly available, and administration officials say its release did not compromise national security. It was posted on the Government Printing Office website but has since been removed.
Reader Comments
Speed up the shift to "alternate energy."
I regret Truman took advice to "Contain Communism" and used atom bombs. The USSSR, our WWII ally, honored the Tehran agreement and, right on time the Red Army crossed the Manchurian border. It would have conquered Japan from its West. But the bomb made Japan surrender in a way that left USSR no influence in postwar Japan. That led to the Cold War with its horrible increase in nuclear weapons-- and Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. People invested in nuclear power corporations and hate to see them closed. We must speed all ways to have "alternative energy." We must stop MAKING nuclear waste. We must stop making enemies based on different religions and different economic systems.
Nuc'EL"ar FUELS/SPENT-FUELS LOCATIONS Site IN(!!!)-"Security": DOE/NRC "(MONKEY)-BUSINESS AS USUAL"!!!
ACHTUNG!!! : U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT REPORTERS LOOKING FOR "A" STORY:
RE.: Nuc'EL"ar FUELS/SPENT-FUELS LOCATIONS Site IN(!!!)-"Security": DOE/NRC "(MONKEY)-BUSINESS AS USUAL"!!!
THIS IS JUST MOST ESPECIALLY DOE / BUT ALSO NRC NUC"EL"AR-(MONKEY!!!)-"BUSINESS AS USUAL"!!!
THE EVER-DYSUNCTIONAL TOO-LONG LITANY OF AEC-ERDA-DOE SINS AT IT'S "NUTIONAL-LAVATORIES" SPANS BY NOW SOME SIX-DECADES AND COUNTING/ONGOING. GO TO ANTI-NUC"EL"AR SECTOR OF WEBSITE WWW.ANIMATEDSOFTWARE.COM AND THEREIN, (OR ON GOOGLE), SEARCH UNDER: EITHER "SUPER"ALLOYS, OR <"EDWARD SIEGEL" SUPERALLOYS> OR <"SIEGEL" SUPERALLOYS> TO SEE THE "HISTORY OF THE (AEC-ERDA-DOE!!!)FATHERS VISITED UPON THE CHILDREN(US, HERE, NOW!!!)" IN ORIGINAL SOVIET SABOTAGE/ESPIONAGE VERSUS THE 1950's THEN BURGEONING NUC"EL"AR-NAVY AND AIR FORCE NUC"EL"AR-"DEVICES"/WEAPONS, AND THEN, PROPAGATED BY MACHO MOSTLY NUC"EL"AR-NAVY TYPES INVADING THE COMMERCIAL NUC"EL"AR-POWER INDUSTRY, ONGOING GENERIC ENDEMIC EXTANT PURPOSEFUL METALLURGICAL F R A U D!!! "C A V E A T E M P E T O R!!!"
AS TO SECRETARY CHU'S ETHNICITY (RE. TWO OF THREE "REDNECK'S" COMMENTS:
THESE AEC-ERDA-DOE/NRC "SINS OF THE FATHERS" ARE AS RECENT AS WHITE PROTESTANT/CATHOLIC DOE SCARE-TARIES SAMUEL BADMAN AND ARMY SCARE-TARIES FRANCIS JOSEPH HEARVEY!!!(AS WELL AS ANY/ALL FORMER AEC-ERDA-DOE/NRC PREVIOUS SCARE-TARIES!!!) THEY WOULD NEVER LET ONE BE A...(GASP!!!)...TROUBLEMAKER...(GASP!!!)... SUSPICIOUS...(GASP!!!)... COMIE-LOVING...(GASP!!!)...AL QUIDA SYMPATHIZER LIKE...(GASP!!!)...JEW, LIKE...(GASP!!!)... ADMIRAL H Y M A N R I C K O V E R !!!
DEscedents
Energy Secretary Steven Chu is Chinese decendent, Oh Yeah~
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