[ RadSafe ] NRC issues License to phony company

[John Jacobus]

Was there a story or rumor about the submission of a
phoney licensee application to the NRC earlier this
year? I don't mean the attempt to smuggle material
into the county using altered docuemnts in December,
2005.

--- Bob Casparius <caspar at aecom.yu.edu> wrote:

>  From The New York Times
> 
> July 12, 2007
> 
> 
> A Nuclear Ruse Uncovers Holes in U.S. Security
> 
> By 
>
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/eric_lipton/index.html?inline=nyt-per>ERIC
> 
> LIPTON
> 
> WASHINGTON, July 11 ­ Undercover Congressional 
> investigators set up a bogus company and obtained 
> a license from the 
>
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/nuclear_regulatory_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Nuclear
> 
> Regulatory Commission in March that would have 
> allowed them to buy the radioactive materials 
> needed for a so-called dirty bomb.
> 
> The investigators, from the 
>
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/government_accountability_office/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Government
> 
> Accountability Office, demonstrated once again 
> that the security measures put in place since the 
> 2001 terrorist attacks to prevent radioactive 
> materials from getting into the wrong hands are 
> insufficient, according to a G.A.O. report, which 
> is scheduled to be released at a Senate hearing
> Thursday.
> 
> 

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


       
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