"An 84-year-old Catholic nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant," .
The AP reminds us that:
"On July 28, 2012, the three activists cut through three fences before reaching a $548 million storage bunker" at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. "They hung banners, strung crime-scene tape and hammered off a small chunk of the fortress-like Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, or HEUMF, inside the most secure part of complex. After the break-in, the complex had to be shut down, security forces were re-trained and contractors were replaced."
Matt Shafer Powell of NPR member station WUOT previously that the facility is "often described as the Fort Knox of nuclear weapons material. So no one was more surprised to find out that an 82-year-old nun could break into the complex than the woman who did it."
"We had no idea how much was electrocuted," Rice told WUOT. "The sensor, we didn't know exactly which was, we suspected which was but we kept moving. No dogs came out. ..
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