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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 May 1, 2010 - May 31, 2010

Friday
May072010

Former CIA officer warns of Al Qaeda threat to US atomic reactors

In a May 5, 2010 Op-Ed published in the New York Times, former Central Intelligence Agency officer Charles Faddis warns that alleged Al Qaeda member Sharif Mobley, who worked as a maintenance employee at five nuclear power plants on the East Coast, could very well have communicated sensitive information to the terrorist organization, leaving security guard forces and cooling systems vulnerable to attacks that could lead to atomic reactor meltdowns and catastrophic radioactivity releases.

DateMay 7, 2010 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |