[chimera]

the Shippingport nuclear power plant

Not much of a target since its been decommissioned and dismantled now for years. What a bunch of maroons.

[dirtboy]

Not much of a target since its been decommissioned and dismantled now for years. What a bunch of maroons.

They've grounded flights at Jefferson County Airport in Colorado because it's too close to Rocky Flats, a nuke weapons lab that is undergoing a cleanup. I think the rationale is that a terrorist could start a fire that would release radioactivity from the plutonium still on site.

So they are reacting to that minor threat potential - but last weekend I drove through Los Alamos, and there were no checkpoints on the roads leading to the complex. Crazy.

[Dane]

Not much of a target since its been decommissioned and dismantled now for years.

There is a working nuclear reactor at Shippingport.

[Rebelbase]

"What a bunch of maroons. "

What does skin color have to do with this?

[wvnavyvet]

Little do you know. Yes the old Shipingport plant has been, but there are two other plants, Beaver 1 and Beaver 2. These plants have operated for many years.

[E.Allen]

Shippingport is the name of the town, you are correct that the original reactor was decommissioned, but same site has two (Beaver Valley 1 & 2) nuclear plants. Town also has a large coal fired plant (Bruce Mansfield).

[chellis]

There most certainly is a working nuclear reactor at Shippingport.