Chlorophyll

The Nuclear Regulatory Comission has ruled that companies who own and run nuclear power stations and other nuclear related facilities like waste storage can't be expected to implement prevention programs to safeguard their nuclear materials, therefore they need only plan to clean up after the fact. The report is right right here.

Now I live less than ten miles as the crow flies from two reactors at the Catawba Nuclear Station. They are less than twenty miles from the Charlotte airport. A stolen plane could crash into the reactor within minutes of take off.

Not only that, but as I have testified before NRC and other related federal agencies, the airport runways in Charlotte and Columbia, SC are protected by only one layer of chain link fence from the adjacent highway. Someone determined could easily crash a big SUV through that fence, race up to a UPS or Fed Ex or DHL airplane, take off and crash into the Catawba reactors or the spent fuel sitting in pools on the reactor grounds.

There is another pair of reactors on Lake Norman, just north of Charlotte. That station is within thirty miles of the airport in Charlotte, and there is yet another nuclear power plant near Winnsboro, about forty miles south between Charlotte and Columbia.

Has the NRC just painted a terrorist target on us?