United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1996-09-26 monographic deposited born digital 15 p. GA 1.13:T-RCED-96-260 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260 P0b002ee180388070 f:rc96260t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260 T-RCED-96-260 Weapons research Laboratories Security clearances Nuclear weapons plant security Internal controls Foreign governments China India Israel Taiwan Commonwealth of Independent States Other Written Product RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed unclassified visits by foreign nationals to the Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear weapons laboratories. GAO noted that: (1) the average annual number of foreign visitors to these DOE laboratories has increased 55 percent since 1986; (2) in 1996, the number of foreign visitors may increase to over 6,700; (3) DOE designates some countries as sensitive due to national security, terrorism, regional instability, or nuclear proliferation concerns; (4) the average annual number of foreign visitors from sensitive countries has increased 225 percent since 1993; (5) 93 percent of these visitors came from China, India, Israel, Taiwan, and the states of the former Soviet Union; (6) DOE has changed its visit approval and background check requirements since 1988; (7) DOE has delegated the laboratories authority to approve visits that do not involve high-level foreign visitors, sensitive subjects, or secure areas; and (8) DOE only requires background checks on visitors from sensitive countries who are on assignment or involved in sensitive subjects or secure areas, but it has permitted two laboratories to omit background checks for visitors on assignment. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260/html/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260.pdf GAO/T-RCED-96-260 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-96-260 Other Written Product GAO/T-RCED-96-260; DOE Security: Information on Foreign Visitors to the Weapons Laboratories; Weapons research Laboratories Security clearances Nuclear weapons plant security Internal controls Foreign governments China India Israel Taiwan Commonwealth of Independent States