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Thursday
Jul212011

"Homeland Security warns about threats against utilities"

Although this story by CNN does not mention nuclear power plants explicitly, it does feature a photograph of one! As the anti-nuclear movement has warned since even long before the 9/11 attacks, but especially so since, nuclear power plants and radioactive waste storage facilities are potentially catastrophic targets for terrorist attack, dirty bombs in our backyard of immense size.

For this reason, nearly 200 environmental groups, representing all 50 states, have urged for nearly a decade now that high-level radioactive waste be put in "hardened on-site storage," rather than kept in indoor pools and outdoor dry casks vulnerable to attacks.