yup..
" A contract worker was arrested Thursday for attempting to sell nuclear secrets from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News.
Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, is expected to appear at a federal court in Knoxville, Tenn., at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Oakley was named in a yet-to-be unsealed indictment and worked as a low-level contractor for Bechtel Jacobs Co. at the East Tennessee Technology Park, a cleanup site that once housed the government's gaseous diffusion plant used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
The gaseous diffusion plant was closed in 1987 and the cleanup of the site, including radioactive waste left over from the Cold War years, has continued under a contract with Bechtel. The site is part of the federal Oak Ridge reservation, but separate from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The employee was unsuccessful in his attempt to sell the secrets, officials said.
Officials said the suspect managed to sneak information and material ? including tubes used in the uranium enrichment process ? out of the lab and into his trailer home. Those items were found in January.
Another official said the employee was nabbed as the end-result of a FBI "sting operation," FOX News has learned.
Officials hinted to FOX News that debt may have led the man to attempt to smuggle the nuclear secrets.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory. It was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the nation's secret program to develop a nuclear bomb during World War II.
The East Tennessee Technology Park is a former K-25 uranium-enrichment site.
"We're dealing with an issue of obvious sensitivity. I can't discuss it," said Billy Stair, a spokesman for the Oak Ridge lab. He said there would be a statement by the U.S. Attorney's office later Thursday.
The indictment marks the second leak of classified information from sensitive Energy Department sites in the last year."
https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289945,00.html
Jul 19, 2007 @ 16:24:53
wtf? I'll get the full story when I find a article.
