There is already no where to put the toxic poisons!
"Plan for Nuclear Storage Is Slow to Form" by MATTHEW L. WALD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 — The Energy Department has not finished plans to consolidate storage of nuclear bomb fuel and other high-risk materials now spread among numerous sites, even though the department said in 2005 that it would do so within about a year, according to a Government Accountability Office report to be released Monday.
As a result, the department is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to defend additional sites.... But the new report makes clear that the goal of shutting down some obsolete weapons and research centers, and simplifying the security job by centralizing “special nuclear material,” as bomb fuel is called, has yet to advance from concept to plan, let alone to finished project.
A spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the Energy Department, did not dispute that planning was moving more slowly than anticipated but said that shipments of some radioactive materials had begun.
The concept is to remove plutonium and highly enriched uranium from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in a part of California that is now largely suburban; surplus plutonium from the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State, a site that is mostly being decommissioned; and plutonium-238, used to generate heat for space probes, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Did you know uranium was being train-tracked across the country?
I hope terrorists don't find out.
Oh, I here the train going by. Wave to the engineer!!!
Never thought about it before, but... what's on that train?
Highly enriched uranium from Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, and plutonium and uranium-233 from Los Alamos, also in New Mexico, would also be moved. Uranium-233 was manufactured decades ago from thorium, and can be used in weapons.
There is your dirty-bomb material! Terrorist just got steal a car or two, right?
The various materials would go to another Tennessee site, Y-12; the Savannah River Site, in South Carolina; Pantex, near Amarillo, Tex.; the Nevada Test Site; and the Idaho National Laboratory.
The report says... that terrorists might invade one of the sites and detonate a weapon, assemble an improvised nuclear explosive from the materials at hand or steal a weapon for use elsewhere.
I told ya! Then what were the BILLIONS SPENT on SECURITY doing?
Take readings of HOT FART MIST?
A Republican staff member on the committee said that some of the plans might face local opposition at some point... but that this was unlikely."
'Cause we don't know about it, or... ?
