Thursday, January 08, 2004
Ooop! Bush administration drops the ball on weapons-grade uranium shipment
AP reports:
Right. Not that anyone would ever want to, well, divert and intercept it along the way.... Like, say winger terrorists? Move along, people, move along. There's no story here!
Tell me again why Bush is supposed to be so good on national security?
A trucking company accidentally sent a shipment of diluted weapons-grade uranium to a North Carolina nuclear plant instead of its intended destination in Kentucky, but the mix-up posed no risk to anyone, officials said.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission believes the mistake posed no risk to anyone, a spokesman said Wednesday.
"It was received at a facility authorized to take it," agency spokesman Roger Hannah said.
Right. Not that anyone would ever want to, well, divert and intercept it along the way.... Like, say winger terrorists? Move along, people, move along. There's no story here!
Tell me again why Bush is supposed to be so good on national security?
