{"id":3325,"date":"2012-11-27T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2012-11-27T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T20:36:26","slug":"is-bomb-plant-top-threat-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/27\/is-bomb-plant-top-threat-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bomb Plant top threat in US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>At a 1978 SC State House press conference organized by the Natural Guard (the SC Progressive Network&#8217;s predecessor), Dr. John Goffman, a nuclear scientist credited with the discovery of plutonium, stated that the Savannah River Bomb Plant was the nation&#8217;s greatest national security threat. In the ensuing 34 years, the threat has increased.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bomb Plant: America\u2019s Three A.M. Nightmare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 14, 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"View all posts in National Security News Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcbureau.org\/category\/national-security-news-service\" rel=\"category tag\">National Security News Service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aiken, S.C. &#8211; Tons of weapons grade plutonium and other nuclear materials, a target for terrorists, are not being properly protected by the National Nuclear Security Administration at the Department of Energy\u2019s sprawling Savannah River Site, according to security consultants and U.S. counterintelligence officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A secret security review underway at DOE and other government agencies after an elderly nun last summer breached a NNSA bomb-grade-uranium facility at the Oak Ridge Tennessee Y12 area reveals \u201charrowing problems in site management and control at other DOE sites,\u201d said a Homeland Security official who requested anonymity. The official said that the Savannah River Site was of concern because \u201cSRS does not have the staffing or the facilities to protect the huge amounts of plutonium that have been brought to SRS in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\" http:\/\/www.dcbureau.org\/201211147978\/national-security-news-service\/the-bomb-plant-americas-three-a-m-nightmare.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a 1978 SC State House press conference organized by the Natural Guard (the SC Progressive Network&#8217;s predecessor), Dr. John Goffman, a nuclear scientist credited with the discovery of plutonium, stated that the Savannah River Bomb Plant was the nation&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/27\/is-bomb-plant-top-threat-in-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}