Category Archives: Nuclear Plant Security

(January 13, 2002) The Project on Government Oversight investigates, exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. Continue reading →

(January 10, 2002) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A day after a dismissed California nuclear power plant worker was arrested for allegedly threatening colleagues, U.S. power industry officials said he stood few chances of ever delivering those threats on the job. The nuclear power industry, already on high alert following the deadly Sept. 11 attacks, run its employees through a tough gauntlet of checks aimed at weeding out anyone who might jeopardize plant safety. Continue reading →

(December 20, 2001) OTTAWA (CP) – Canada is unlikely to impose no-fly zones over its nuclear reactors or station missiles around them, a senior nuclear regulatory official says. Continue reading →

(December 19, 2001) If terrorists take down nuclear plants, you pay – by the hundreds of billions. Even as the human tragedy of two jets smashing into the World Trade Center tore at the hearts of energy traders, their minds were turned to two things: the oil and the nukes, both seeming suddenly more vulnerable than ever to hostile forces from abroad. Continue reading →

(December 19, 2001) (CNN) — More than two decades after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, the United States is again confronting the fear of an unexpected release of radiation. This time the concern isn’t about an accident, but about a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant. Continue reading →

(December 16, 2001) The following news brief appeared at the end of ‘Bin Laden in plot to bomb City’. M15 has warned Ministers that a determined terrorist attempt to fly a jet into the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria could not be prevented because it is only two minutes’ flying time from transatlantic flight paths. Continue reading →

(December 3, 2001) VIENNA (REUTERS) – The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) said last week recent cases of illicit nuclear material trafficking showed the urgent need for better protection and control of radioactive material. Continue reading →

(December 3, 2001) Terrorits deliberately flying an aircraft into the Sellafield nuclear repocessing plant could “wipe out the north of England”, a pressure group has told MPs. Continue reading →

(November 22, 2001) NEW YORK (Reuters) – Arguing that customer costs would increase, an electric trade association in New York opposed a recent effort by environmental groups and local elected officials to shut nuclear power plants due to security concerns, the group said in a statement this week. Continue reading →