84-year-old nun sentenced to jail for infiltrating “secure” nuclear weapons facility and exposing serious security deficiencies
Megan Rice, an 84-year-old nun, was sentenced to 35 months in prison after breaking into the grounds of a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium. Her demonstration at the Y-12 National Security Complex on July 28, 2012, exposed serious security flaws to the Oak Ridge, Tenn., plant. Before sentencing, she told U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar that the U.S. government was spending too much money on weapons and the military.
Rice, a sister in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, became a nun when she was 18 and served for 40 years as a missionary in western Africa teaching science. She and two other activists cut through fences to reach a $548 million storage bunker and then hung banners, strung crime scene tape, and hammered off a small chunk of the fortress-like Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility inside the most secure part of the complex.
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