A sign warns against trespassing onto the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Megan Rice, an 82-year-old nun, and two other anti-war protesters face federal charges for cutting through three fences and spray-painting slogans on the wall of a weapons-grade uranium facility in July. Rice was both praised and criticized by congressmen at a congressional hearing about the security breach in Washington on Wednesday.
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published Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An 82-year-old Roman Catholic nun accused of breaching security at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee with two fellow peace activists elicited both praise and criticism Wednesday at a congressional hearing on the intrusion.







