Friday, February 11, 2005
Halliburton keeps nuke loss a secret
Associated Press
2.11.2005
Halliburton Co, an oil services company and major military contractor in Iraq, lost track of a shipment of radioactive material in October but didn't alert the US government until this week.
Federal authorities mounted an intensive search and have just found the material in Massachusetts.
According to a report Halliburton filed Tuesday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the material was lost in October as it was being shipped to Texas, where Halliburton is headquartered.
It apparently had been misdirected in New Jersey and ended up at the Forward Freight facilities in Boston.
Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan said that Halliburton's four-month delay in reporting the loss did not comply with notification requirements, and the incident is under investigation. The material was two sources of the element americium, which is used in oil well exploration.
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