[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Savannah River Site (SC)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Bomb Plant

By Joseph Trento
National Security News Service |
September 12, 2011

Thanks to funding from the Colombe Foundation, the Educational  
Foundation of America and an anonymous donor, National Security News  
Service reporters spent the last two years investigating the most  
secretive institution in the federal government: the National Nuclear  
Security Administration (NNSA) and its radioactive weapons facility -  
the Savannah River Site (SRS).

We call our multi-media investigation The Bomb Plant. It tells how a  
secretive and little known government agency, dedicated to  
modernizing and safeguarding nuclear weapons, reaped billions of  
dollars in the name of nonproliferation. After DOE wasted billions of  
Stimulus Act dollars on environmental clean-up at the nation's  
nuclear weapons facilities, especially SRS, NNSA took control to hide  
the problems.

Begun in the Bush administration, NNSA eats up 85% of the Department  
of Energy (DOE) budget. It has bipartisan support in Congress. It  
became one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S. government by  
successfully compromising its opponents.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dcbureau.org/201109126200/national-security-news-service/ 
the-bomb-plant.html#more-6200

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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