News Brief: Nukes Dukes Rebukes Kooks
Nuclear Agency: Air Defenses Impractical
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 30, 2007; A04
Federal regulators plunged into an energy and national security controversy yesterday by ruling that the nation’s 103 nuclear power plants do not need to protect themselves from potential attacks by terrorists using airplanes.
Sure, the nuclear power plants ” are inherently robust” installations. So what was the World Trade Center, a home made tree house? The Nuke regulators voted 5-0 that the job belongs to someone else, the military or another agency but not them and not the nuke plant companies. If it were not for so many mistakes in the past, one could believe that this stuff is all made up just to fool the terrorists. You know, to have them think we’re this stupid.
This one is sort of like the global warming thing. Some people call attention to a potential crisis and most everyone blows them off. A group of people petitioned the Nuke regulators about anti-terrorist measures at the nation’s nuke facilities. Rather than reject their specific proposal or suggest another or more discussion, they conclude they need to do nothing. Let the military or some other agency deal with it. Simply not an intelligent response.
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