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(September 24, 2001) MIAMI – The Coast Guard has set up a precautionary secure zone in the waters around Turkey Point nuclear power plant south of Miami, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Continue reading →

(September 21, 2001) One of Canada’s pre-eminent environmental groups is calling for military protection of New Brunswick’s nuclear power station at Point Lepreau. Continue reading →

(September 19, 2001) The military should protect nuclear power plants in Canada against terrorist attacks such as those that occured last week in the United States, Energy Probe says. Continue reading →

(September 18, 2001) In the wake of the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Towers in New York and damaged the Pentagon, American security officials have begun to think in earnest about some of the other targets that future terrorists might attack. Continue reading →

(September 18, 2001) The Canadian military should protect all nuclear power plants in this country 24 hours a day because of vulnerability to World Trade Center-type terrorism, says Energy Probe. Continue reading →

(September 17, 2001) Measures to keep weapons from terrorists found to be weak. Continue reading →

(September 16, 2001) What happens if a suicide bomber drives a jumbo jet into one of America’s 103 nuclear power reactors? What happens if a fire fed by thousands of tons of jet fuel roars through a reactor complex –or, worse, through the enormous and barely-protected containment pools of spent nuclear fuel found at every such plant? Continue reading →