April 29, 2007 06:28 PM
John Amato on the Rachel Maddow Show
John Amato will be on The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America at 4:30 pm Pacific this afternoon. He's scheduled to discuss the Tobias/DC Madam scandal. You can stream audio here.
The Rachel Maddow
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December 12, 2006 07:30 PM
Safety issues at nuclear facility
Heard this on the Rachel Maddow Show on my local AAR station.
LA Times: (reg req.):
The Energy Department said Tuesday that it was investigating a series of alleged safety problems at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant near Amarillo, Texas, including complaints by employees that they were being required to work up to 84 hours a week to meet decommissioning schedules for nuclear weapons.
[..]The Pantex plant, which has 3,500 employees, handles the servicing of nuclear weapons and the decommissioning of excess weapons under arms control treaties. During the Cold War, it was the sole assembly site for nuclear bombs.
Employees characterized conditions at the Pantex complex, which sits on 25 square miles and began nuclear work in the early 1950s, as "degraded" and in disrepair in many areas. The letter also said engineers were being required to work up to 84 hours in a seven-day week and production technicians 72 hours in a six-day week.
