What you seem to be saying is that, "If someone steals money, it does not affect his reliability for handling special nuclear material." Did I overlook something?
At a nuclear power plant, the criteria for unescorted access is that someone must be "trustworthy and reliable." I doubt that someone engaging in a "culture of theft" would meet those criteria.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose (or money), it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
-----Original Message-----Re only the "culture of theft" at LANL: this is being very thoroughly reported by our local press, and has nothing whatever to do with the theft of radioactive material. It seems that external audits of LANL purchasing practices have uncovered a number of very serious irregularities, but it has to do with misuse of money, not radioactive material.
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Ruth
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
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