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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

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      Vanessa Romo

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      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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    3 of 3
    The Surgeon General and the Role of Science in National Policy
    1. 1:46President Pushes Back against Iraq Progress Report
    2. 7:24Is Ideology Trumping Science in the Bush White House?
    3. 41:01Bogus Firm Gets Nuclear License in Sting OperationYou’re reading this
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