Audit Trigger

An audit by the U.S. Energy Department inspector general found that employees at the Rocky Flats weapons plant outside Boulder, Colo., had nuclear bomb parts on their desks for use as candy dishes and paperweights. The plant, which produced plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs, is long closed. Its employees are now working on a massive cleanup effort. The workers got the items from trash bins, so they will not be disciplined, inspectors say, but the parts were confiscated. “Some folks want to have a souvenir or memento of what happened here,” suggested a Rocky Flats spokesman. (AP) ...Beats the parts being used for what they were designed to do.