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In reply to the discussion: Gunman Sought After Shootout at Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee [View all]SidDithers
(44,228 posts)30. Tennessee has a Nuke Event
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20130422-38940-USA
Nuclear Event in USA on Monday, 22 April, 2013 at 03:24 (03:24 AM) UTC.
A security officer patrolling near a Tennessee nuclear power plant Sunday exchanged gunfire with an individual, Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said. The NRC Region II staff began monitoring the Watts Bar plant near Spring City, approximately 60 miles southwest of Knoxville, after the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operated the plant, notified the NRC of the incident, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The incident occurred about a quarter mile outside the plant's protected area, the news sources said, adding the officer was not injured. Watts Bar plant officials declared an unusual event, the lowest of the NRC's four emergency classifications.
That's how you're supposed to report stuff like this.
Sid
Nuclear Event in USA on Monday, 22 April, 2013 at 03:24 (03:24 AM) UTC.
A security officer patrolling near a Tennessee nuclear power plant Sunday exchanged gunfire with an individual, Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said. The NRC Region II staff began monitoring the Watts Bar plant near Spring City, approximately 60 miles southwest of Knoxville, after the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operated the plant, notified the NRC of the incident, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The incident occurred about a quarter mile outside the plant's protected area, the news sources said, adding the officer was not injured. Watts Bar plant officials declared an unusual event, the lowest of the NRC's four emergency classifications.
That's how you're supposed to report stuff like this.
Sid
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Gunman Sought After Shootout at Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee [View all]
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
OP
My thought exactly, but WTF? Was that one person doing advance work for a real attack?
Tom Rinaldo
Apr 2013
#2
The monument can not melt down by simply shutting down its cooling systems, the reactor can.
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#10
Your assuming 1) the individual is not trained in how to operate the plant.
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#15
That's why the terror threat has been so obviously over-hyped. However, ALL
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#8
Fertiliser bomb iin a boat still won't do it. IIRC those places are hardened...
TheMadMonk
Apr 2013
#24
It's what he represents, he got away. There is some threat to the reactor when a
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#9
After a certain point hypothetical scenarios are a little too absurd. (nt)
Posteritatis
Apr 2013
#28