Security
Nuclear reactors are sitting-duck targets, poorly protected and vulnerable to sabotage or attack. If their radioactive inventories were released in the event of a serious attack, hundreds of thousands of people could die immediately, or later, due to radiation sickness or latent cancers. Vast areas of the U.S. could become national sacrifice zones - an outcome too serious to risk. Beyond Nuclear advocates for the shutdown of nuclear power.
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As reported by the Washington Post.
This begs the question: are U.S. atomic reactors, radioactive waste storage facilities, and even nuclear weapons complex sites, secure against cyber attack?!
Nuclear disaster again? As reported by The Daily Beast.
April 21, 2021