Report Blames DOE for Compromised Security Test at Y-12
A federal investigation into how guards at a Tennessee nuclear weapons plant got copies of questions in advance of a written security skills test has called on the Department of Energy to improve its oversight of private contractors, according to an article from Businessweek.
DOE inspector general Gregory H. Friedman said in a Wednesday report that the questions were widely distributed among security officers at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, the article says. The same plant came under scrutiny after it took hours for the guards to respond when three anti-nuclear protesters cut perimeter fences, made their way to the building housing the nation’s bomb-grade uranium and defaced it with spray paint and blood on July 28.