Wednesday, April 05, 2006
In case you didn't have enough to keep you up at night
Remember Timothy McVeigh? Oklahoma City? While we worry, with full justification, about the next terrorist attack from the middle east, it's entirely possible that home grown terrorists had a hand in a very scary incident.
A gaseous diffusion plant which enriches uranium had it's fence cut. A three foot cut. Now the government is suggesting that this is likely some activist group or person trying to test security at the plant. But what if it wasn't some activist group or person, but a terrorist trying to get his or her hands on radiological material for an attack?
Listen folks, from where I sit, radiation kills, and plutonium is forever. I know we're talking uranium here, so maybe not forever, just a few tens of thousands of years.
Global climate change is a reality. The pressure to build more "non-polluting" power plants will only increase in the future, and with more nuclear power plants comes more nuclear proliferation and higher risk of nuclear terrorism.
I have testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a hearing in Charlotte, NC, that the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport is less than ten miles from four nuclear reactors, and two spent fuel rod assembly retaining pools. FedEX and UPS airplanes sit, loading ramp in the "load" position, protected by only one layer of link fence. A Hummer could easily drive through this fence, which is literally next to the road and less than a hundred feet from an airplane. How long would it take a motivated and trained terrorist to take that plane and fly it into one of these nuclear power plants?
The future is certainly a mixed bag. I wonder often times if the world will look as different in 3006 as 2006 is different from 1006. Will we have survived? Will the living envy the dead? Or, will we find a way to paradise on Earth, eliminating greed and hunger, despotism and hatred, and create the loving, caring society Greens seek?
The article can be found by Clicking here.
A gaseous diffusion plant which enriches uranium had it's fence cut. A three foot cut. Now the government is suggesting that this is likely some activist group or person trying to test security at the plant. But what if it wasn't some activist group or person, but a terrorist trying to get his or her hands on radiological material for an attack?
Listen folks, from where I sit, radiation kills, and plutonium is forever. I know we're talking uranium here, so maybe not forever, just a few tens of thousands of years.
Global climate change is a reality. The pressure to build more "non-polluting" power plants will only increase in the future, and with more nuclear power plants comes more nuclear proliferation and higher risk of nuclear terrorism.
I have testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a hearing in Charlotte, NC, that the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport is less than ten miles from four nuclear reactors, and two spent fuel rod assembly retaining pools. FedEX and UPS airplanes sit, loading ramp in the "load" position, protected by only one layer of link fence. A Hummer could easily drive through this fence, which is literally next to the road and less than a hundred feet from an airplane. How long would it take a motivated and trained terrorist to take that plane and fly it into one of these nuclear power plants?
The future is certainly a mixed bag. I wonder often times if the world will look as different in 3006 as 2006 is different from 1006. Will we have survived? Will the living envy the dead? Or, will we find a way to paradise on Earth, eliminating greed and hunger, despotism and hatred, and create the loving, caring society Greens seek?
The article can be found by Clicking here.
// posted by Gregg Jocoy @ 7:17 AM 
