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Friday July 23 6:33 PM ET
U.S. Buys Back Supercomputer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratory last
week bought back a supercomputer it had sold as surplus to Korber Jiang, a
Chinese citizen who is the principle of EHI Group USA and exports American
goods to his home country.
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., called Friday for Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson's resignation, saying that the computer could have been used ``to
design nuclear weapons.''
``He's going around the country saying there are no problems in the
Department of Energy, that everything is under control,'' Weldon said in a
telephone interview. ``If there are no problems, then how can this happen?''
Neal Singer, a spokeswoman for Sandia National Laboratories, said that the
New Mexico facility sold the Intel Paragon XPS to Korber's one-man company
for $30,000 in October. After discovering Korber's nationality, Singer said,
the department bought back the computer for $88,000 last week and stored it
under guard at Sandia. The spokesman said the difference in cost may have
been due to shipping costs incurred by Korber.
``Secretary Richardson has instituted a moratorium on any sales of surplus
material that incorporates export control technology until there has been a
thorough review of what happened,'' said Energy Department spokeswoman
Brooke Anderson.
The transaction was first reported by Insight Magazine.
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