- Jeff,
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- The story fails to mentions that one week ago, the Department
of Homeland Security requested a list of plants which the NRC considers
most vulnerable to terrorists attack. The NRC did not reply to DHS in time.
So, DHS made its own list, called the governors of those states, requested
the deployment of additional protection (primarily National Guardsmen)
and promised to pay for their deployment.
- Last night around 1:00 am, I was awakened by a phone
call alerting me to the sounds of what was probably military jets over
the Harrisburg PA area. The caller said it was reminiscent of the October
17, 2001 night when three F-16 fighter jets orbited Three Mile Island
12 miles south of Harrisburg.
- I went outside last night and heard them for myself and
surmised they were military jets judging by the sound compared to normal
commercial air traffic and previous military overflights (overcast
skies prevented visual observation). Since then, I have heard from others
that they heard the same thing. No word yet on what was going on.
- Scott D. Portzline
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- NRC Out Of Loop On Raised Terror Alert
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- By Garry Lenton
- Of The Patriot-News (PA)
- 3-20-3
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- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency responsible
for ensuring that commercial nuclear power plants are protected from attack,
learned from CNN that the nation had been placed on a higher terrorism
alert Monday.
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- The Department of Homeland Security, which is supposed
to coordinate security measures with federal agencies, sent an e-mail about
the increased threat level to an NRC official who had left his office for
the night, said David Lochbaum, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists,
a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group.
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- No other attempt to contact the NRC was made, said Lochbaum,
who learned of the incident Tuesday after testifying before a closed session
of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Oversight
and Investigation.
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- An NRC official contacted yesterday refused to comment.
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security did not return phone calls
requesting comment.
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- Lochbaum downplayed the incident, saying it had no detrimental
effect because Homeland Security officials notified plant operators.
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- The governors of states that host 30 nuclear plants the
department considered potential targets of a terrorist attack were contacted
Monday
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- http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.
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- Comment
- From Scott Portzline
- 3-21-3
-
- Jeff,
-
- The story fails to mentions that one week ago, the Department
of Homeland Security requested a list of plants which the NRC considers
most vulnerable to terrorists attack. The NRC did not reply to DHS in time.
So, DHS made its own list, called the governors of those states, requested
the deployment of additional protection (primarily National Guardsmen)
and promised to pay for their deployment.
-
- Last night around 1:00am I was awakened by a phone call
alerting me to the sounds of what was probably military jets over the Harrisburg
PA area. The caller said it was reminiscent of the October 17, 2001
night when three F-16 fighter jets orbited Three Mile Island 12 miles
south of Harrisburg.
-
- I went outside last night and heard them for myself and
surmised they were military jets judging by the sound compared
to normal commercial air traffic and previous military overflights (overcast
skies prevented visual observation). Since then, I have heard from others
that they heard the same thing. No word yet on what was going on.
-
- Scott D. Portzline
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