Posted on 09/13/2007 7:57:46 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON (AP) — A stockpile of plutonium and other nuclear weapons materials stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory hasn't been fully accounted for in 13 years or more, a government audit has found.
The northern New Mexico lab's workers have done regular, partial inventories of the material, which the government considers to be at high risk of theft, the audit by the Energy Department's inspector general, Gregory Friedman, found.
Yet an inventory of all the material hasn't been done in "perhaps 13 years or more," Friedman wrote. It wasn't even done when the lab's management contract changed last year, investigators noted in the report made public Wednesday.
Friedman said he is concerned because the lack of complete inventories means that lab workers likely haven't physically accounted for all of the material in more than a decade.
"The capability to deter, detect and assist in the prevention of theft or diversion of this material is critical," Friedman wrote. Yet, he added: "We were unable to find anyone with knowledge or documentation of the last time the vault was completely inventoried."
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3 years...
big gubmit at work.
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Just wonderful.
Hey, maybe Richardson is converting the RailRunner engines to nuclear power??
ROTFL....only if he can figure out a way to expand his campaign coffers!
Come on, Folks! Almost half that time we’ve had GWB in the WH. What’s up with his DOE not doing anything about this??? Obviously no one wants this problem solved. And what about the Air Force doing its big investigation about the nuclear bombs being loaded into B-52s and flown across the country? We are to believe that this was just another “human error”? Thank God our enemy is dumber than we are, and that’s really saying something.
By the way, there are lots of really good Chinese restaurants in Los Alamos. Probably more there than in Albuquerque.
I’m sure it’s nothing to be concerned about.
Do we really want the government running our health care system?
And if you remember, it was 96’ or 97’ that stolen nuclear data was missing, later tracked down to another ChiCom.
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