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Increased security inspections for nuclear installations

Nuclear Weapons Sites Inspections Underway for 2010 Apr 22, 2010 The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) POGO was pleased to learn that the Department of Energy’s Office of Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) has scheduled for this year security inspections for all of the DOE sites that hold Category 1 amounts (bomb-making quantities) of nuclear material.

These sites include: Nevada Test Site, Hanford, Los Alamos National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Y-12, and Pantex. POGO learned of the scheduled inspections in a meeting two weeks ago with DOE officials.This news comes after bi-partisan oversight by Congress, as well as coverage in the media of an internal DOE memo that POGO released that raised concern that HSS would not assess the sites’ security through force-on-force performance tests (exercises pitting mock adversaries against the guard force).
HSS claims that the Nevada Test Site recently performed well on its force-on-force this week. This is good news, as POGO is recommending that additional weapons dismantlement can be done at the Test Site’s super-secure Device Assembly Facility. Nuclear Weapons Sites Inspections Underway for 2010 – The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog

April 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | nuclear, nuclear costs, reactors