Re: Hysteria

[Vincent.King@doegjpo.com (Vincent King)]

     You mean like the last line of the AP story recently which 
     reported, in all seriousness, that the accidental photocopying of a 
     page from a classified document at Hanford was not related to the 
     recent wildfires in that area?  [excerpt from article below]
     
     What a relief!  Makes you wonder what other office errors can be 
     caused by wildfires, or maybe what other natural disasters can lead 
     to photocopying errors...(actually, it makes ME wonder what the 
     reporter has in his/her head instead of brains to even print such a 
     statement).
     
     Vincent King
     vincent.king@doegjpo.com


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Subject: Hysteria
Author:  "Grant Wilton" <gwilton@chem.swri.edu> at Internet
Date:    7/14/00 1:42 PM


News item:

" A semi-trailer was involved in a head-on collision with another semi today
on Highway 441. The accident took place 650 miles from the Acme Edison
Nuclear Plant where highly toxic and radioactive material is stored.  Plant
officials report that no radioactive material was released as a result of
the two trucks colliding."

Does this type of writing look familiar to anyone?


My thoughts, not to be construed as those of the company that pays my
salary.


Grant Wilton
Senior Research Scientist
Southwest Research Institute
gwilton@chem.swri.edu

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     Classified Work at DOE Lab Stopped
     
     YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Classified work at the Pacific Northwest 
     National Laboratory was temporarily halted after a secret document 
     was mistakenly photocopied and left in an unsecured but locked 
     office. 
     
     The security breach occurred June 29 when an employee at the lab in 
     Richland copied several unclassified drawings along with a 
     classified one in a secure area, then took the papers to an office 
     outside the secure area and left them locked up there, lab 
     spokesman Greg Koller said Monday. 
     
     [....]
     
     The incident occurred as a range fire swept across the nearby 
     Hanford nuclear reservation, but the security lapse was unrelated 
     to the blaze, Koller said. 
     
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