Workers threw out U.S. nuclear secrets with common rubbish for 20 years

20 years that is three administrations and who knows how much longer, question is why did it take this long to expose, no body checked for sure.

Totally UNSAT! Gross negligence, and a total lack of accountability. Where were the supervisors? And how did this just get discovered now?

PO1 John Miller I was not surprised to read that :in June 2014, a worker at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee was surprised to find U.S. nuclear secrets inside a trash bag marked for disposal along with standard rubbish. Taking a closer look, the worker found 19 more documents in the bag that were either marked classified or were later determined to contain information that should have been labeled secret. A dozen more bags of trash sat nearby, awaiting transport to an open landfill where Y-12 workers routinely dump garbage with no bearing on national security. When employees of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services, Y-12, LLC, the contractor responsible for running the site at that time, poked inside two of these additional bags, they found more top-secret documents."
When I was assigned to the Pentagon after we moved back into the building a few months after 9/11/2011, we would periodically carry burn bags with classified and other sensitive information to an area at the Pentagon wall boundary and turn it over to a contractor truck which was taking teh trash to a secure burn facility. Security service personnel were nearby but I always had an uneasy feeling about the security of the burn process.