Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant Targeted???

[flutters]

Glenn Beck mentioned that the National Guard is at Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant due to a terrorist threat. Has anyone got any information about this? I've searched the web and can't find anything more.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good thing John McCain voted against drilling in ANWR, so we can be more realiant on nuclear plants.

[FITZ]

Source:

http://www.borderlandnews.com/war/stories/0320-paloverde.html

[freeperfromnj]

Apparently Bill Gertz broke the story in today's Washington Times. He's one of the best.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030320-43174000.htm

[Z-28]

i have been trying to warn about this since 1995:

http://borderreport.cjb.net

[FITZ]

Open borders === never was a good idea.

[freeperfromnj]

six Iraqi citizens were detained earlier this week trying to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico.

Are they coming in to Mexico through South America?

[Britton J Wingfield]

Guard troops were sent to Palo Verde the other day in response to some intel. There's a link to an article on Nationalreview.com's 'corner'

[flutters]

Some good pictures here:

http://www.delange.org/PV/PV.htm

[glory]

To the west of Phoenix, actually not all that far from Luke Air Force Base.
It's probably about 40-45 miles west of Phoenix.

[cyncooper]

I live in Tucson and I swear I saw on local news back when this diary was found, that it was found by our Congressman Jim Kolbe's brother on his ranch. The tv station interviewed him down there and he pointed to where he found it and everything.

At the time I thought the chances that the brother of a U.S. rep would find the thing were odd. FWIW

[glory]

some specifics on the plant
http://www.srpnet.com/power/stations/paloverde.asp

sorry I'm still link impaired!

[glory]

some specifics on the plant


Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station
Operator: Arizona Public Service Co. (APS)

Owners: APS
29.1%

SRP
17.5%

El Paso Electric Co.
15.8%

Southern California Edison
15.8%

Public Service Co. of New Mexico
10.2%

Southern California Public Power Authority
5.9%

Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power
5.7%




Description: Uranium-fueled, steam-electric nuclear generating station. Palo Verde is a pressurized water reactor.

Capacity: 3,810 megawatts from three 1,270 MW units.

Plant construction: Construction began in June 1976. Unit 1 was completed in January 1986, Unit 2 in September 1986, and Unit 3 in January 1988.

Construction costs: $4.7 billion for construction and $1.2 billion for pre-operational and startup testing, for a total of $5.9 billion.

Environmental controls cost: According to a state of Arizona study, 22% of the facility's cost is environment-related.


Emissions from the plant: Palo Verde is a zero-emissions facility.

[cyncooper]

Here it is. I'm not a huge WorldNetDaily fan, but it was the first thing to pop up in my Google search:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31027

---"Mr. Kolbe alerted the FBI, which sent an agent to pick up the diary and backpack on Tuesday.

Kolbe is the brother of Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., in whose congressional district he lives."---

[glory]

Awesome page with info on it and nice pic of the plant

http://www.nucleartourist.com/us/pvngs.htm

Looks like my first idea of it's location was right on. I said 15 miles from my house in Phoenix and that was already 20 miles to the west of phoenix. This site has it at 34 miles west of Phoenix. Whew, all I knew is that some mornings we could see the steam plumes in the distance as we road down our street to work or errands.

[Clinton Is Scum]

So Middle Easterners are sneaking across our southern border? Big deal. Everyone knows that illegal immigrants only come here to do the jobs no one else will do.

</sarcasm>

[flutters]

Very nice link and picture. No relevant press release from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission yet (I checked that earlier). Palo Verde NPP used to have their own website, but it was removed after 9/11.

[AZamericonnie]

So in essence did our Governor lie and/or with hold information regarding a direct threat? Seems that way to me.

[HiJinx]

The Sierra Vista Herald, my local paper, ran that story on the Tuesday after the weekend that Mr. Kolbe and his wife found the diary. I transcribed it, scanned the photo, and posted the story to FR that evening.

Either WND picked it up from my post, or one of the Tucson papers stumbled across our local article several days later.

The picture accompanying the WND article looks to be exactly like my scan, cropped to remove the page number from our newspaper.

HJ

[cyncooper]

Interesting...and good work. I missed your thread but one of our local channels ran the story back around the time the diary was found and it certainly stuck in my head, especially the odd fact of a U.S. Rep's brother being the one to find it.

[HiJinx]

Yes, that was an interesting coincidence. Walter Kolbe runs a Bed & Breakfast on the San Pedro...and that is a heavily used path to the North.

The things we find along the immigrant trails are shocking. A co-worker once found a blanket soaked in blood...evidently, an illegal had been crossing her property at night and ran straight into an Indian Dagger Yucca plant. Appropriately named, eh?