Y-12 security breach detailed by former contractor in report

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http://www.wbir.com/news/article/259768/2/Y-12-security-breach-detailed-by-former-contractor-in-report

WBIR.com
Mar 15, 2013

Nearly eight months after an unprecedented break-in at the Y-12 National 
Security Complex in Oak Ridge, 10News has received a copy of the response its 
former contractor filed with the National Nuclear Security Administration 
(NNSA) explaining what happened at what's supposed to be among the most secure 
buildings in the world.

The NNSA issued a "show cause" to then contractor Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) a few 
weeks after three protestors broke into the complex in the early morning hours 
of July 28, 2012.  That put B&W on notice that its contract was in jeopardy, 
giving it an opportunity to defend itself against termination.  10News 
submitted a public information request for a copy of B&W's response to the NNSA 
on September 12, 2012, the day the filing was due.

We received that document late Thursday; the account of the security breach is 
similar to a previous, independent review done by the Office of the Inspector 
General, but the "show cause" is the most detailed report made public so far.

In the own words of B&W the trespassers reached the building that contains much 
of the nation's highly enriched uranium, undetected, "Although there were 
several individual and systemic causes that led to the Security Event, the 
immediate cause was an improper response by the WSI force."

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