U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory at High Risk

Creator

The Project on Government Oversight
Peter Stockton

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Document Type

Report

Date

10-16-2006

Description

Since POGO's original report in 2001, U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Security at Risk, the organization's continuing investigations' have documented how a variety of U.S. nuclear facilities have not implemented adequate protections against these threats, even when the facilities have large stashes of weapons-grade and weapons-quantity nuclear materials which particularly merit protection.

This report more specifically documents the shortcomings of efforts to secure Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). An initial examination of these sites was reported in POGO's May 2005 study, "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Homeland Security Opportunities". That report presented the findings of POGO's investigation into security at facilities throughout the nuclear weapons complex, and concluded that consolidating weapons-grade nuclear materials from 13 sites to seven sites would dramatically increase security, as well as save the DOE an estimated $3 billion in security costs over three years.

This research was completed money allocated during Round 6 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.

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The Project on Government Oversight

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pdf

Keywords

nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons testing, environment, non-governmental organizations, United States Department of Energy, tribal governments, environmental cleanup, radioactive fallout, radioactive waste

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Location

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

The Project on Government Oversight and Stockton, Peter, "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory at High Risk" (2006). The Project on Government Oversight (POGO). 1.
https://commons.clarku.edu/pogo/1