Posted on 02/03/2016 8:08:31 AM PST by Freeport
In June 2014, a worker at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee was surprised to find U.S. nuclear secrets inside a trash bag marked for disposal along with standard rubbish. Taking a closer look, the worker found 19 more documents in the bag that were either marked classified or were later determined to contain information that should have been labeled secret.
A dozen more bags of trash sat nearby, awaiting transport to an open landfill where Y-12 workers routinely dump garbage with no bearing on national security. When employees of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services, Y-12, LLC, the contractor responsible for running the site at that time, poked inside two of these additional bags, they found more top-secret documents.
“(They) then decided not to search any additional containers because they were, given the prior results, presumed likely to contain additional classified information,†a preliminary notice of violation issued Feb. 2 by the Energy Department’s enforcement arm said.
Many of the records discovered that day detailed how the department’s employees and contractors worked with nuclear explosive materials, such as highly-enriched uranium, housed at the Y-12 complex. But it quickly got worse: Further investigation by the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees such work, led officials to conclude that nuclear secrets had been thrown away with lax security at the Tennessee plant for more than 20 years.
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Heck they gave away the molten salt reactor plant details to the Chinese.
Really. Separate networks, separate computers, even separate trash cans. You can mix UP, i.e. drop a lower-classification item in a higher-classification bin, but not the other way. I’ve even worked in shops with separate SHREDDERS for various classifications. . .
I’m sure the workers “took accountability” for it.
This will help Hillary, if everyone was doing it, or so her people will say.
Y12 sites have multiple lapses in securing material. including spent fuel
KnoxNews article on the issue
got to agree with you on that. having 14 yrs in submarines as an STS, and 5 yrs working AEGIS R/D even in the labs, handling that material is a different animal then unclassed.
It's all ‘equivalent’ right?
She's compromised the country - knowingly....
I’m waiting for the part when they charge the garbage collectors with a felony...
“After all this time, what difference does it make?” HRC
I work for the flipping cable tv company and our document security is better.
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Sounds like Las Vegas but without the fun.
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