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WASHINGTON – The government accidentally posted on the Internet a list of government and civilian nuclear facilities and their activities in the United States, but U.S. officials said Wednesday the posting included no information that compromised national security.
However, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, questioned about the disclosure at a House hearing, expressed concern with respect to a uranium storage facility at the department's Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The facility holds large quantities of highly enriched uranium, which if obtained can be used to fashion a nuclear weapon.
"That's of great concern," said Chu, referring to the Y-12 site. "We will be looking hard and making sure physical security of those sites (at Y-12) is sufficient to prevent eco-terrorists and others getting hold of that material."
But later Chu told reporters that while the disclosure may be embarrassing "there's no secret classified information that's been compromised (and) the sites and everything are public knowledge" already available elsewhere.
But, he added, the list "gathers it up" in a single document, and that is of some concern.
The 266-page document was published on May 6 as a transmission from President Barack Obama to Congress. According to the document, the list was required by law and will be provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Some of the pages are marked "highly confidential safeguards sensitive."
Chu said he had no details as to how the document was released, beyond that it involved the government printing office. "Someone made a mistake," said Chu, appearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee .
Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the document had been reviewed by a number of U.S. agencies and that disclosure of the information did not jeopardize national security. He said the document is part of an agreement on nuclear material inspection under the IAEA's nuclear nonproliferation effort.
"While we would have preferred it not be released, the Departments of Energy, Defense, and Commerce and the NRC all thoroughly reviewed it to ensure that no information of direct national security significance would be compromised," LaVera said in a statement.
An Energy Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the situation publicly, said none of the sites on the list are directly part of the government's nuclear weapons infrastructure.
In addition tothe Y-12 facility, the document includes some facilities at the Energy Department's Hanford nuclear site in Washington state and various civilian nuclear fuel processing sites including uranium enrichment facilitates, according to government officials.
Uranium stored at the Y-12 site is scheduled to be moved into a new $549 million high-security warehouse in 2010, said Y-12 spokesman Steve Wyatt. The 300-by-475-foot, fortress-like warehouse, under construction since 2004, will replace several aging vault-like storage facilities.
Beth Hayden, a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the agency reviewed the document as it relates to civilian facilities with NRC licenses and "we are confident that information of direct national security significance was not compromised."
The NRC has jurisdiction over commercial nuclear power plants and civilian uranium processing and storage facilities.
The publication of the list was first reported in an online secrecy newsletter Monday. The document had been posted on the Government Printing Office Web site, but has since been removed from that site.
In a statement, the Government Printing Office said Wednesday: "Upon being informed about potential sensitive nature of the attachment in this document, the Public Printer of the United States removed it from GPO's Web site pending further review. After consulting with the White House and Congress, it was determined that the document, including sensitive attachment, should be permanently removed from the Web site."
The GPO said it processes and produces approximately 160 House documents during the two-year congressional cycle, and the list was received by the agency in the normal process and produced under routine operating procedures.
The document includes both government and civilian nuclear facilities, all of which have various levels of security, including details and location of nation's 103 commercial nuclear power reactors, information readily available from various sources.
The document details the location of the nuclear sites and what is being done there.
For instance, there are nuclear reactors at the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, Pa. This facility is currently working on research into what happens when there are accidents with the nuclear reactors. The project started in 2006 and is expected to end in 2012, according to the document.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_go_ot/us_us_nuclear_list
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Fucking idiots!
Shouldn't a document like this be eyes only? And delivered personally to anyone who need a copy?
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Our Federal Resources Minister just did a similar stupid thing. She left Top Secret documents pertaining to our Chalk River nuclear facilities at a bloody TV studio. Anyway, ...turns out our conservative gov hasn't been entirely forthcoming with Canadians, ...and there's been an additional $72 million in funding to our Chalk river nuclear plant, as an extremely expensive option to retain the ability to produce radioactive isotopes. This particular nuclear plant produces approx 1/3 of the world's supply of medical isotopes, but was shut down 2 weeks ago because of a radiation leak. Question Period on Parliament Hill might get lively.
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Not like the Chinese and the Russians don't know this already.
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Not like the Chinese and the Russians don't know this already.
Anyone who wanted to know already knew. This was definitely a fuck up, but it's sort of like saying "The government fucked up by publishing elaborate photos and maps of the New York subway system." It's not exactly top secret info or even difficult info to acquire, it's just stuff that you generally don't want enemies to have.
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probably intentional.
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Not like the Chinese and the Russians don't know this already.
I'm more worried about some fuckers that wear a rag on their head getting these documents than the Russians.
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I'm more worried about some fuckers that wear a rag on their head getting these documents than the Russians.
I'm sure that will be the premise when the next false flag attack is triggered. :-\
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I'm sure that will be the premise when the next false flag attack is triggered. :-\
I guess that being so poor and not being able to afford a ticket to NYC makes you think that 9/11 was a farce.... ::)
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I'm more worried about some fuckers that wear a rag on their head getting these documents than the Russians.
Those guys have probably already had paid tours of the places. They must know about the "energy competition"
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I guess that being so poor and not being able to afford a ticket to NYC makes you think that 9/11 was a farce.... ::)
moi? ::)