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Editorial: Accept responsibility for security lapse

Here is the statement that UW-Madison officials should have issued last week after an ABC News undercover investigation of security at the university’s nuclear reactor:

“ABC’s investigation exposed a lapse in security at the nuclear reactor used for teaching and research on our campus. Two ABC undercover investigators, posing as visiting students, were permitted to step through a door to the reactor building and take photographs without undergoing security clearance.