Three Necsa employees fired

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Guards were sleeping? That would never happen in the U.S.!

http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=700489

Three Necsa employees fired

Joel Avni
07 February 2008

(photo) FLASHBACK: Louw Denner, acting manager of security services, shows where an armed gang breached a 30-strand 10 000v electric fence and security alarms to raid the Pelindaba nuclear facility. Photo: Joel Avni

The Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Necsa) has fired three of its security staff because guards were sleeping on duty while two bands of armed men broke into Pelindaba last year.

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This is where the apartheid regime used to develop its nuclear weapons and uranium refinery, and remains one of the most heavily guarded national key points.

But shortly after midnight on November 8 last year, two armed bands tried to breach the facility’s security fence. One group was driven off after a shootout with a guard.

The other cut through the 30-strand 10 000-volt electrified fence, disabled other sophisticated security systems and broke into the emergency control centre.

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