Energy Department Replaces Guards at Uranium Facility

Reuters reported  the Energy Department said it will replace guards and supervisors at the principal U.S. facility for storing weapons-grade enriched uranium after a breach 10 days ago.

As quoted in the market news:

The guards and supervisors work for WSI Oak Ridge, a subsidiary of the giant international private security contractor G4S, which was at the center of a dispute over security preparations at the London Olympic Games.

A federal official at the U.S. Energy Department’s Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, had also been “temporarily re-assigned” pending the investigation, a government official said.

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