Posted on 12/05/2008 7:44:44 AM PST by Freeport
Despite a 2003 commitment to fix the problem, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) still cannot assure that it is carrying out corrective actions to address nuclear warhead anomalies that may significantly affect the safety, security and reliability of the nation's stockpile, according to the Energy Department's inspector general.
The findings follow two other recent reports by Inspector General Gregory Friedman reflecting internal allegations or disagreements among officials at DoE's Sandia National Laboratories over safety and quality assurance issues related to the nation's stockpile. In one case, the inspector general suggested top DoE officials had not been fully informed of safety issues related to warheads; in the other, he said quality assurance procedures had not been followed in the production of new warhead components.
Of the various controversies, Friedman was most definitive in expressing concern about the failure of NNSA, DoE's semi-autonomous weapons agency, to adequately track and complete corrective actions for potentially significant anomalies detected in the stockpile.
In an unclassified memo explaining the findings of a classified report, the inspector general said that, under the terms of its warhead production manual, NNSA is required to formally track the resolution and closure of corrective actions recommended by "significant finding investigations," or SFIs, into warhead anomalies.
Friedman said he initially found problems with NNSA's follow-through on SFI recommendations in a 2002 audit. That triggered a February 2003 commitment by NNSA to develop an effective corrective action tracking system by December 2003.
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I call BS. The one’s they paid me $50 each to fix in my garage will work just fine.
Well... At least you can see the floor on a moonless night... ;-)
And the nuke test ban treaty means we can only “simulate” the effect of warhead (trigger) degradation over the past twenty years.
The problem might not be too bad - NONE of our weapons might actually be able to go off with the expected yield, and this failure-to-fix-an-audit-item might be meaningless.
They still do a lot of subcritical hydroplus stuff.
Greetings, RAC.
This is the kind of article that gives ya a real warm, glow-in-the-dark feelin’.
Don’t worry....Barry and the clinton cabinet will fix everything.
EODGUY
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Can I go back underneath the reactor to get some extra shielding from the outside?
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