Guards Replaced Following Tennessee Nuclear Security Breach
The Energy Department said Monday that it was replacing guards and supervisors on duty 10 days ago when three peace activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached perimeter fences at the principal U.S. facility for storing weapons-grade enriched uranium, according to an article from Reuters.
A federal official at the U.S. Energy Department’s Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, had also been “temporarily re-assigned” pending the investigation, a government official said in the Reuters article.