Nuclear Reactor Guards Feel Vulnerable to Attack


Nuclear Reactor Guards Feel Vulnerable to Attack -- Cat Lazaroff  -- Environmental News Service  -- September 12, 2002
Nuclear Proliferation

Security guards protecting 24 of the nation's nuclear reactors, located at 13 power plants across the U.S., have little confidence that they could defeat a determined terrorist attack, finds a new report by a nonprofit nuclear watchdog group. The guards told interviewers that their morale is very low, and that they are under equipped, undermanned, and underpaid.

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