12/28/09 GAO Finds U.S. Agencies Responsible For Nuclear Data Leak

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Several federal agencies share responsibility for the inadvertent publishing by a government office of sensitive U.S. nuclear power information on the Web last May, according to Congressional investigators. The investigators found that a Government Printing Office 266-page document, gave details on nuclear power sites, locations, facilities and activities, on the Web in May. It also included 14 diagrams of buildings or facilities at U.S. nuclear sites, two of which were marked "Official Use Only" and described activities at national laboratories. None of the agencies that had prepared the draft document for the International Atomic Energy Association -- the Departments of Energy and Commerce and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- had made sure it was marked with U.S. security designations, the Government Accountability Office said in a report about its investigation.

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