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DOE lab contractor employee terminated after attempting to fly to Korea with reactor design software: report
Yonhap ^ | March 18, 2025 | Song Sang-ho

Posted on 03/17/2025 2:17:01 PM PDT by rdl6989

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory contractor employee was terminated after attempting to board a flight to South Korea with export controlled information on nuclear reactor design software, a report showed Monday.

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) terminated the person during the reporting period from Oct. 1, 2023 through March 31 last year, the DOE Office of the Inspector General (OIG)'s report to Congress said, as questions persist over why South Korea was placed in the lowest category of the DOE's "Sensitive and Other Designated Countries List (SCL)" in early January.

The information in question is proprietary nuclear reactor design software owned by INL. The OIG conducted a search of the employee's government email and chat history showing the employee's knowledge of export control restrictions and communications with a foreign government, according to the report.

(Excerpt) Read more at en.yna.co.kr ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: doe; korea

1 posted on 03/17/2025 2:17:01 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Yardarm & piano wire for a tune up.


2 posted on 03/17/2025 2:19:52 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: rdl6989

odd how they go out of their way to avoid naming the spy.


3 posted on 03/17/2025 2:31:30 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: vikingd00d

Yes, very strange.


4 posted on 03/17/2025 2:36:53 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

He needs to be terminated terminated.


5 posted on 03/17/2025 2:38:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: vikingd00d

Bets on a Chinese name?


6 posted on 03/17/2025 2:40:04 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: lightman
Years ago the company I worked for sold several reactors and a tech transfer to South Korea.

We jokingly referenced to the tech transfer as ten Koreans lined up at a Xerox machine.

I then went to Korea and for the first few morning while there and reading manuals a nice Korean coworker would come over and ask if I would like a "copy".zz I always said no thank you,

After a while I found out he was asking if I wanted a "kopi"¹


7 posted on 03/17/2025 2:40:39 PM PDT by TexasGator (X1.1111'1'./iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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To: Tench_Coxe

I’d say very good odds.


8 posted on 03/17/2025 2:45:08 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: TexasGator

you know, that’s both funny and sad at the same time, funny because of the misunderstanding, sad because you didn’t get a well-deserved “kopi” ...


9 posted on 03/17/2025 3:09:15 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: vikingd00d

Probably North Korean.


10 posted on 03/17/2025 3:09:15 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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To: rdl6989

Not jailed?


11 posted on 03/17/2025 3:21:42 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: TexasGator

“Years ago the company I worked for sold several reactors and a tech transfer to South Korea”

There were supercomputers sold to North Korea during the Clinton administration that were sent for agricultural purposes that got upgraded from comercial grade turnout to weapons grade level. The secretary of commerce, Ron Brown said he was going to go public with this information to the Clintons and the next day when he left, his plane crashed. I personally watched the autopsy results hearing and it was determined that he had died of a beveled hole in his skull that can only be caused by a drill or a gunshot. The autopsy was terminted and a new results sheet was presented about a week later.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/dec/05/army-examiner-disputes-results-from-autopsy-on/

wy69


12 posted on 03/17/2025 3:47:20 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: catnipman

The second week we all went out partying and karaoke.

I 5hink they planned it for that night since the next day was all-hands training.

As I sat alone in thee large group room, the manager came over and asked if I wanted some tea.

We went over to his office and his secretary fixed us tea and snacks.

As we sat, he said, “Mr. Xxxxxx, If you would like to sleep, please use my office.”


13 posted on 03/17/2025 4:15:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (X1.1111'1'./iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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To: whitney69

“I personally watched the autopsy results hearing and it was determined that he had died of a beveled hole in his skull that can only be caused by a drill or a gunshot. “

There was no autopsy.


14 posted on 03/17/2025 4:28:09 PM PDT by TexasGator (X1.1111'1'./iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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To: rdl6989

Nothing on any other of my ‘news’ sites on this theft.

****


15 posted on 03/17/2025 5:24:37 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: TexasGator

“There was no autopsy”

In a television program I was watching in a college entertainment area I watched doctors that were representing the military comment on the appearance of the head wound and that it resembled either a gunshot or a drill. The show was blacked out and came back later in the week with no talk of the head wound.

the wound was identified by experts from the military as a gun shot wound. This was supported by the media:

“The wound, which was documented and photographed in a medical examination at Dover, Del., was “as close to a perfectly
circular hole as you can get” in the skull, he said. The fact that the hole was “inwardly beveling” — bigger on the inside of the skull — is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound.”

https://www.fpparchive.org/media/documents/public_policy/Experts%20differ%20on%20Ron%20Brown%20head%20wound_Christopher%20Ruddy_December%203,%201997_Pittsburgh%20Tribune-Review.pdf

wy69


16 posted on 03/17/2025 8:32:46 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: rdl6989

terminated? how about arrested tried and convicted of treason in a military court


17 posted on 03/18/2025 3:08:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: whitney69
From your expert on your link:

Cogswell: Whether it's a bullet or something else, we don't know.

18 posted on 03/18/2025 7:39:30 AM PDT by TexasGator (X1.1111'1'./iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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