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Bogus Firm Gets Nuclear License in Sting Operation

The General Accounting Office launched an uncover operation to see if some agents could buy radioactive materials using forged documents. They succeeded, exposing a major hole in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 's security system. If this is all that stands between Americans and a dirty bomb attack, how safe are we?

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KCRW placeholderBy Jim Sterngold • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

The General Accounting Office launched an uncover operation to see if some agents could buy radioactive materials using forged documents. They succeeded, exposing a major hole in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's security system. If this is all that stands between Americans and a dirty bomb attack, how safe are we? We hear what went wrong from Kathleen Day of the Washington Post and what the government must do from former NRC physicist Joel Lubenau.

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    Jim Sterngold

    Wall Street Journal

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    Vanessa Romo

    LA School Report

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    Dan Konecky

    Producer, To the Point

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    Katie Cooper

    Producer, 'One year Later'

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    Kathleen Day

    Staff writer for the Washington Post

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    Joel Lubenau

    Former Senior Advisor to the Chair of the NRC

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