GAO: Nuclear Security Poor

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Highly radioactive material could fall into the hands of terrorists because the nation's nuclear plants are not keeping close enough track of spent fuel, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, raised concerns that radioactive materials "could be diverted or stolen and used maliciously," said the report, which also questioned the level of plant oversight by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
NRC spokesman David McIntyre called the risk of the spent fuel ending up in terrorists' hands "extremely low."

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Do they not know that handling this fuel suicide? When I worked in the nuclear plant, they told me that if you put one of these fuel assemblies on the 50 yard line of a football field, and started running towards it, you'd die before you reached it.

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It's the GAO, what do you expect? Comptroller General, David M. Walker was appointed to his 15-year term by Slick Willie. At the time, it was the Government Accounting Office, charged with counting beans. In 2003, the GAO Human Capital Reform Act changed its name to "Government Accountability Office" and it has become a federally funded left-wing activist group.

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...federally funded left-wing activist group

Agreed. They are obviously trying to stir some more alarm about Nuclear Power Plants. The alarm isn't justified.