WASHINGTON – Congressional investigators set up a bogus company with only a postal box and within a month obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small “dirty bomb.”
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who will ask the NRC about the incident at a Senate hearing Thursday, said the sting operation raises concerns about terrorists obtaining such material just as easily.
Nobody at the NRC checked whether the company was legitimate and an agency official even helped the investigators fill out the application form, Coleman said in an interview Wednesday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged that more checking is needed in such licensing and said that since being told of the GAO sting operation it has tightened licensing procedures.
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Post the source of the article. Oh, and you can make a dirty bomb from a microwave too.
no one is ever safe.
you are not any more safe at home then you are driving or driving then walking, or walking then flying, flying then boating.
everywhere you go you put your life in someone elses hands.. and when it comes down to it you will die some day. just use the days you have left and make them the happiest they can be.
Haven’t you been paying attention – we are fighting terrorists in Iraq to make us safe to visit there, not to continue living here.
Just goes to show…
We’re living a lie.
We’ll never BE safe.
No matter who runs the government.
In the rural parts of Mississippi and Oklahoma is plenty of opportunity to buy a warehouse and make a whole set of bombs. We have some serious rurals here. They raise marijuana and make coke and anything else and sell it. We see a barn and it has about 10 pickup trucks around it and a few cows. A high cyclone fence around the barn and guys walking around with rifles on their shoulders. A bunch of no trespassing signs and this isn’t a one time instance. They do this or have this business like for years. I heard a girl say she saw a black T shirt with the words and a picture of a marijuana plant on the front in New York City with the words the best comes from Keota OK
So what would stop them from having a rural hide out and make anything they wanted to make. Sending men all over the States to get stuff. We know more how to do terror attacks than they do thank goodness they lack any imagination.