We trust them to run the reactor, but they plan a heist?!
We were lucky.
They could have locked the doors, run the reactor into critical, and threatened a general meltdown. Held a city for ransom.
Perhaps one day, someone will do that. (Nightmare!)
I hope the NRC has considered that possibility.
A nightmare even the citizens of Mordor would cringe at contemplating.
Seems like they were so desperate for money they would plan to hold up an armored car - not an easy heist given guards are armed. With this level of aggression and desperation, they could do...well...anything. Take money to admit unauthorized people into the plant? Sell security codes to hackers??? Yikes!
The regulator’s “Tsk Tsk Tsk. We frown on this kind of behavior. Must boost the training program so people know better than to do this.” was Orwellian NEwspeak - freakish reading this.
Obviously, you have no comprehension of what goes on in a nuclear power plant’s control room...
The plant would be tripped so fast from outside the control room and safely shut down to hot stand-by outside the control room while the security force would be using all their fancy gear to get inside the control room to shoot the suckers dead!
They have emergency procedures in place just for this exact scenario.
Hey sauron,
The reactor IS CRITICAL at all times during sustained power operations. When the power is rising, lets just say perhaps during Startup, the reactor is SUPER-Critical.
No need to run.