NUKE LIBRARY YANKED

CNN is report­ing that “the Nuclear Regulatory Commission removed its mas­sive pub­lic read­ing room from the Internet Monday after nuclear safety activists and media orga­ni­za­tions found sev­eral doc­u­ments on it con­tain­ing sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion they said could help ter­ror­ists.“

The infor­ma­tion included floor plans for nuclear lab­o­ra­to­ries at sev­eral uni­ver­si­ties, spec­i­fy­ing the types and loca­tions of nuclear mate­ri­als they use.
The NRC said the removal of the online doc­u­ment library is tem­po­rary and that doc­u­ments will be posted again after they are scrubbed of sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion.
Critics said the action was too late — com­ing three weeks after the prob­lem was first pub­li­cized — and too dras­tic, involv­ing the removal of thou­sands of non-​​sensitive documents.

October 26th, 2004 | Cloak and Dagger | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.