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Nun, other activists face trial for breaching U.S. nuclear security
Source: Reuters
Nun, other activists face trial for breaching U.S. nuclear security
By Preston Peeden
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee | Mon May 6, 2013 10:07pm EDT
(Reuters) - An elderly nun and two other environmental activists who broke into a supposedly secure facility that stores enriched uranium for nuclear bombs go on trial on Tuesday over the incident that embarrassed the U.S. government.
Lawyers will present opening arguments in the case of the three activists charged with sabotage and destruction of government property after they cut through several fences in July to reach the heavily guarded Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
They admitted to walking for two hours through the complex, which prosecutors described as the "Fort Knox" of U.S. nuclear installations, and spray-painted slogans and hammered on the walls of an enriched uranium facility. Fort Knox is a heavily guarded U.S. military base in Kentucky where gold reserves are stored.
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The activists - Michael Walli, 64, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and nun Melissa Kirby, 83 - were in a Tennessee federal court on Monday as a jury was selected from among more than 70 people.
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By Preston Peeden
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee | Mon May 6, 2013 10:07pm EDT
(Reuters) - An elderly nun and two other environmental activists who broke into a supposedly secure facility that stores enriched uranium for nuclear bombs go on trial on Tuesday over the incident that embarrassed the U.S. government.
Lawyers will present opening arguments in the case of the three activists charged with sabotage and destruction of government property after they cut through several fences in July to reach the heavily guarded Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
They admitted to walking for two hours through the complex, which prosecutors described as the "Fort Knox" of U.S. nuclear installations, and spray-painted slogans and hammered on the walls of an enriched uranium facility. Fort Knox is a heavily guarded U.S. military base in Kentucky where gold reserves are stored.
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The activists - Michael Walli, 64, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and nun Melissa Kirby, 83 - were in a Tennessee federal court on Monday as a jury was selected from among more than 70 people.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-usa-security-nuclear-idUSBRE94601J20130507
