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Y 12 National Security Complex

Nuclear Protestors, Including Nun, To Remain Jailed For Months

AP | Posted 05.12.2013 | Crime
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A judge has ruled that a nun and two other protesters must remain in jail until they are sentenced in September for breaking into ...

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Matt Sledge

Sister Megan Rice, Anti-Nuclear Protester, Charged Under Sabotage Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.06.2012 | Politics
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Under cover of night on July 28, three anti-nuclear protesters snuck into a highly secretive uranium storage facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. They splashe...

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Our Nuclear Insecurity Complex

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
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Project On Government Oversight

Back in July, an 82-year-old nun and two fellow peace activists breached the security at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee. Since then, it's only gotten worse for the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration.

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Nuclear Site Ends Security Contract Following Nun's Break-In

Reuters | Posted 11.30.2012 | Green
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* Aging activists broke into weapons grade uranium Y-12 facility * Babcock & Wilcox company to take over full security of Y-12 ...

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Big Beasts And Little Prophets: Activists Cooling Down The War Machine With Holy Water

Shane Claiborne | Posted 11.12.2012 | Religion
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What are we doing to interrupt injustice? What are we doing to get in the way of violence and death and war? What are we doing to transform weapons into farm tools?

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Where's the Oversight at Nuclear Labs? Hands-Off Approach Is Recipe for Disaster

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 10.10.2012 | Green
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Project On Government Oversight

As the saying goes, "The fish rots from the head down." This is certainly the case at the Y-12 National Security Complex, where an 82-year-old nun and two accomplices recently broke in, raising serious questions about the DOE's security strategy.

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Mission Impossible? Not for 82-year-old Anti-Nuclear Weapons Activist

Mia Steinle | Posted 09.29.2012 | Green
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Mia Steinle

When a nuclear weapons facility can't stop infiltration by an octogenarian nun, it's time to reassess its security standards.

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Activists Allegedly Deface U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Building

AP | Posted 07.29.2012 | Crime
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Officials say three protesters have been arrested for trespassing and defacing a building in a high-security area of a nuclear wea...

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