Nuclear plant security details visible from any internet café

Today, any would-be terrorist sitting in a WiFi café can determine guard towers are at U.S. reactors. It is also possible to establish where the plant shift changes occur. It is no problem to determine the location of nearby highways and staging areas that could be involved in an evolving attack plan. Easily viewable are on-site stairwells and ladders. These are not stolen and smuggled photographs. They are all available off the Web, free for the taking. Bit to date, nothing has been done to obscure these images from public view. To read more about this latest security threat, please visit our Security page.

The power of one: Nancy Burton's lonely victory over Millstone

Connecticut lawyer, Nancy Burton, watched her lawsuits against the Millstone nuclear plant thrown out one after the other until the state Supreme Court ruled in her favor. It took a decade but Burton - who aims to shut Millstone down - won the right in June, 2009 to legal standing to sue the state of Connecticut for failure to enforce pollution standards under the Connecticut Environmental Protection Act. Burton has pointed out that the Millstone reactors pulverize billions of fish and eggs using the once-through cooling system (see her Gone Fission chapter in our 2001 report, Licensed to Kill). The reactors also pump out radioactive water, damaging to human health.