Shultz, Drell and Andreasen Call for Safer Nuclear Enterprise
Sidney Drell, George P. Shultz and Steve Andreasen make recommendations to increase confidence and strengthen the nuclear enterprise in the journal Science.
The Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee has suspended all atomic activities, locked away stores of refined uranium and mandated personnel retraining in response to mounting fears over defensive shortcomings after three antiwar advocates infiltrated the Tennessee nuclear arms site on Saturday.
GSN coverage on Y-12:
Y-12 Plant Suspends Nuclear Arms Activities Over Feared Vulnerabilites, Aug. 2, 2012
Y-12 Plant Infiltration Bore Little Resemblance to Drills: Report, July 31, 2012
Antiwar Protesters Infiltrate Y-12 Nuke Plant, July 30, 2012
Y-12 Uranium Plant Faces Vulnerabilities: Watchdog Panel, April 5, 2012
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Sidney Drell, George P. Shultz and Steve Andreasen make recommendations to increase confidence and strengthen the nuclear enterprise in the journal Science.
NTI experts are providing context and helping the public understand these fast-moving developments as they happen.
"Such steps would introduce long-recognized security risks and have the unintended consequence of impeding nuclear energy expansion just as momentum builds for such an outcome," writes NTI Co-Chair and CEO Ernest J. Moniz.
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