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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Entries from February 1, 2010 - February 28, 2010
February 11, 2010Are nuclear reactors safe from attack?
A recent article in The State, the daily paper of Columbia, SC, examples the security risks posed by reactors and their waste fuel storage pools and casks.
