Nuke Lab Pays Whistleblower - Los Alamos

[dArKeR]

CBS News has learned there's been a $1 million settlement in the case of a former investigator at Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab who claimed retaliation for blowing the whistle on mismanagement, fraud, cover-up and corruption at the facility.

The disclosures by Glenn Walp and a second whistleblower, Steve Doran, led to the scrutiny of security failures of U.S. nuclear labs. As a result of the disclosures, 18 top officials at Los Alamos were fired, demoted or transferred including its director and deputy director.

Walp, the lab's former head of the Office of Security Inquiries, was fired in retaliation for documenting the national security breaches.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/20/eveningnews/main569353.shtml

The point is; citizens who find problems are ALWAYS retaliated against. It's only after a great public outrage does the government act on the original issued the Whistleblower brought up and any type of federal judge protecting the citizen. What does that tell you about our system? What do you think GOP federal judges will do in these cases?

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[diamond14]

1. Los Alamos needs to SHUT DOWN, and environmentally

cleaned-up...wasting BILLIONS of dollars every year, they haven't had even any real work to do, since the USA stopped making plutonium, and that was about 15 years ago....it's a real waste...

and all those leeches (nuclear scientists) need to be MOVED OUT, in order to clean up the mess, which dates all the way back to pre-WWII...Plutonium has been found in people's drinking water wells over two miles away in all directions...

boot those bastards out...and create a NEW industry for the State of New Mexico...the Environmental Clean-up and Restoration of (blah!) los alamos...it's time NOW....

bush* has already funded millions THIS YEAR for los alamos to START making PLUTONIUM AGAIN....to stop this madness...the whole site needs to be SHUT DOWN and cleaned-up....

some of the stuff found by those million-dollar-whistleblowers is just the tip-of-the-iceberg...the mis-management, environmental nightmare and waste of our taxes (as physicists doing NOTHING make hundreds of thousands dollars a year to SIT on their butts)...los alamos is done with it's usefulness...shut it down...

[TahitiNut]

2. Plutonium was refined at Hanford, not Sandia.

The Purex facilities are the most dangerously contaminated on the planet.