Two security experts.................
Posted on 07/16/2018 1:52:34 PM PDT by bgill
Two security experts from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio, Texas, in March 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab there. Their task, according to documents and interviews, was to ensure that the radioactive materials did not fall into the wrong hands on the way back to Idaho, where the government maintains a stockpile of nuclear explosive materials for the military and others.
To ensure they got the right items, the specialists from Idaho brought radiation detectors and small samples of dangerous materials to calibrate them: specifically, a plastic-covered disk of plutonium, a material that can be used to fuel nuclear weapons, and another of cesium, a highly radioactive isotope that could potentially be used in a so-called "dirty" radioactive bomb. But when they stopped at a Marriott hotel just off Highway 410, in a high-crime neighborhood filled with temp agencies and ranch homes, they left those sensors on the back seat of their rented Ford Expedition. When they awoke the next morning, the window had been smashed and the special valises holding these sensors and nuclear materials had vanished.
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Two security experts.................
“Plutonium went missing in San Antonio, but the government says nothing”
Wasn’t this a country song?
The plutonium has done gone missing in San Antonio
Rounding error. /s
Beat me to it!
Some bean counter booked their rooms in that bad neighborhood but its still their fault for not taking the stuff to their rooms.
“When they awoke the next morning, the window had been smashed and the special valises holding these sensors and nuclear materials had vanished.”
Had a similar welcoming experience to San Antonio in August 1969. After 3 years in Germany and a long drive from Illinois we arrived at our Holiday Inn destination. My new assignment was Kelly AFB. Next morning my brand new VW van had been broken into and trashed, Sons of bitches got a color TV and a few other things but must have been scared off because they missed my buried guns. Have had a hard on for San Antonio ever since. That kind of crime must be a cottage industry there to this day. A democrat shithole.
someone is 0.00000000000000001% on their way to a bomb......
You might want to call Doc Brown. Or the Libyans.
Probably 1 μCi Check sources
You could carry them around in your pocket
https://ludlums.com/products/all-products/product/plastic-disk-check-sources
On a high school trip in the mid 70s, we parked our bus at a SA fire station so it would be safe. Of course, the firemen watched as it was broken into and couldn’t be bothered to call the cops. We were just getting back to it as the thugs were leaving with their loot. They knocked a few of the students down as they ran off. When we asked the firemen, they just shrugged their shoulders and laughed. I always wondered if they were in on it.
About 10 years ago, the SA police dept. sent out a teletype to surrounding LEOs that they’d given up on the downtown gangs.
San Antonio, home of the Castro brothers.
Next generation of entitled Democrats.
And Mama La Raza Castro.
San Antonio was the home of the wretched Congressman, Henry B. Gonzales, that lined his pockets for years with Federal money. They deified him and named half the city after him. South San Antonio used to be the “12 Star Final” show place to air the killings and robberies on the TV.
They sent the wrong unit. Sergeant Major Blane and his men wouldn't have lost it.
I reckon it’s done gone by now.
Our government at work, protecting us from bad guys, but not dumb government workers.
“....they left those sensors on the back seat of their rented Ford Expedition. When they awoke the next morning, the window had been smashed and the special valises holding these sensors and nuclear materials had vanished......”
The good news is that most crooks are really dumb. Put out a press release saying that the crooks who stole the materials and anyone who may have come in contact with the crooks have 72 hours to check into a hospital for a blood transfusion and radiation poisoning treatment if they want to live and see how many folks show up.
question is : do these two negligent public employees STILL have jobs with the US government ???
Only if they were working for Hillary!
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