What The F**k?

Scary.

In today's episode of What The F**K?, we find that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) set up a phony company to see if it could bypass security measures and purchase radioactive materials.

Money quote:

The undercover operation involved an application from a fake construction company, supposedly based in West Virginia, that the investigators had incorporated even though it had no offices, Internet site or employees. Its only asset was a postal box.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials did not visit the company or try to interview its executives in person. Instead, within 28 days, they mailed the license to the West Virginia postal box, the report says.

So basically, any ol' terrorist could purchase a PO box (in my neighborhood, that costs about $5.00 per year) and have some radioactive nastiness shipped to it.

I certainly hope that someone from the NRC gets canned over this report.

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