The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today's winner is ENBW they run a nuclear power plant in Germany. With terrorism a threat and security more important than ever, the people who run the Phillipsburg plant have some how lost keys to its security area. 12 keys in all are missing and may have been stolen! Locks are being changed but there was a brief time no one knew the keys were gone.

For endangering the people of Germany and Europe, ENBW is today's Knucklehead of the day.

Open Post- Mudville Gazette, Jo's Cafe, Basil's Blog, Bright & Early, Don Surber,

BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities are changing 150 locks at a nuclear power plant after its owner said they had lost keys to a security area, a ministry spokesman in the south western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said Monday.

Plant operator EnBW said that in spite of intensive searches and questioning it had not been able to recover 12 keys for its Philippsburg plant after discovering they were lost in March.

The environment ministry said EnBW informed it the keys were missing and the operator had put extra safety measures in place to control access to the secure area.

"This has never happened anywhere in Germany before," the ministry spokesman said. "The keys have simply disappeared."

Prosecutors have launched an investigation for theft.