Holy Crap Alert: GAO Stings Nuclear Agency; Obtains License to Buy Ra dioactive Materials

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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I know I can sleep better tonight knowing this. How about you?

Via ABC News' "The Blotter".

[snip]

To start, the investigators set up a dummy construction company that in
reality was no more than a mail drop in Martinsburg, W.Va.

Twenty-eight days and no questions from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
later, the "company" received a license to legally buy certain quantities
of Americium-241 and Cesium-137.

"It was much too easy, much too easy, to get the licenses that would have
allowed individuals setting up a dummy corporation to obtain enough
material to create a dirty bomb," said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who
initiated the investigation in his role as ranking member of the Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

[snip]

More:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/goa-stings-nucl.html

- - ferg

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