Mike Emmanuel Reporting New Terror Threat!

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[ConservativeMan55]

Mike Emmanuel of Foxnews is reporting that a new terror threat has been issued for Nuclear Power Plants. Plots have been uncovered that facilities have been targeted. Keep your heads up everyone!!

[ConservativeMan55]

He said that the plots were vague, but that it is a Nation Wide Alert that is tied to Iraq somehow.

[ConservativeMan55]

Does this mean we go back up to orange?

[Senator Pardek]

Since I have not had acne in 15 years, I will keep my head down.

[ConservativeMan55]

This could be hugh! I'm not certain but I've heard reports from both sides who say that Power Plants are easy targets, and then some have said that they are not easy targets.

[ConservativeMan55]

POWER PLANT ALERT!!
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WorldNewsTonight/nuclearplants_lookout030430.html


Nuclear Power Plant Alert
FBI Warms Law Enforcement About Terror Activity at Power Plants

By Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan



April 30 — The FBI is warning law enforcement officials around the country to be on the lookout for potential terrorist activity around nuclear power plants.


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In its weekly intelligence bulletin to 18,000 police agencies, the FBI says law enforcers should be on the lookout for any suspicious activity around the power plants, including people photographing the facilities and small planes flying in the area.
Nuclear plants "are a vulnerability target which could have certain consequences" if attacked, one official said.

The bulletin does not mention a specific threat.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has assured the public the 103 nuclear plants across the country are protected from terrorists, although the agency declined to specify how they are protected.

Power plants and other pieces of public infrastructure such as tunnels, bridges and railroads have long been considered potential terrorist targets, and many experts consider nuclear plants the prime target.

New Security Measures for Nuke Plants

Today's bulletin came the day after federal regulators imposed tougher security measures on nuclear plants, including more training for private guards and limits on guards' work hours.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a formal regulation Tuesday that broadened the type of armed attack that nuclear power plant operators and their private security guards must be prepared to defend against.

Details of the new security measures were classified, but the NRC officials said they require power plants "to implement additional protective actions to protect against sabotage by terrorists and other adversaries." Security at nuclear power plants was enhanced by an interim NRC order a year ago amid concern that terrorists might be targeting nuclear reactors.

If the improbable happened and terrorists managed to attack and penetrate a nuclear reactor core at a plant, it could trigger an explosive meltdown that could spread radiation for hundreds of miles and trigger lethal health problems, if not immediate death among large populations.

An undercover intruder could wreak similar havoc by sabotaging a plant from the inside.

[harpseal]

A vague threat against nuclear power stations is not a signal to expect a major problem. A nuclear power station is a normally well defended fortified site. There usually is a layered defense with sensors at the outer perimeter. there are also serious units that would come to the aid of any such power station under attack. The security officers I have known at most stations would be well able to defend it albeit there are some ways to penetrate the security with a weapon but any increased alert level at thses staions would make any such attempt far more difficult.

[ConservativeMan55]

Also I have heard that the concrete walls protecting the reactor are very thick.

[leadhead]

Terrorist are not all that smart and think US plants are built like Chernoybl.

Most plants can take any whack your run-of-the-mill terrorist can deliver.

Let them take their best shot. At least they'll be exposed and captured before they can do any real damage.

[TBall]

A few months ago someone posted a thread about an explosion at a big nuke plant out West. The thread was quickly pulled as it was a prank. I remember being so happy to find out that the post was only a prank.

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm thinking maybe the terrorists do this on purpose to distract us from possibly another attack somewhere else. They hope that we focus our attention on one thing, while we are looking at Power Plants they start some kind of attack somewhere else.

[Russell Scott]

Unless they have a nuclear bomb, not much a terrorist can do to the nuclear power plant. If they do have a nuclear bomb, a nuclear plant would not be a good target, since they are in rural areas. I officially give this a tin foil alert.

[Dog Gone]

it could trigger an explosive meltdown

Totally false.

[StockAyatollah]

Yet More "Breaking News!!!" from Fox...zzzzzzzzzzzz

[FryingPan101]

This could be series.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

FBI says law enforcers should be on the lookout for any suspicious activity around the power plants, including people photographing the facilities...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't there been numerous instances of various areas of 'national interest' reportedly being photographed within the last year-and-a-half or so?

[kkindt]

Chicago is ringed by 10 nuclear power plants and this circle of nuke material is going to be their prime target area. If they can cause ONE melt down by crashing a jumbo jet into it the report is that:
If the improbable happened and terrorists managed to attack and penetrate a nuclear reactor core at a plant, it could trigger an explosive meltdown that could spread radiation for hundreds of miles and trigger lethal health problems, if not immediate death among large populations.
AND if it spread it for even 75 miles the other plants would all have to be shut down around chicago and possibly evacuated - the potential for huge losses of power and of the whole chicago metro area being irradiated for decades if not centuries is there. It is just a question of their will power and their opportunity to get another jumbo jet coming into chicago and hitting square one of those plants. Look at the map of power plants around chicago - hitting one of them so the winds there will carry the radioactivity over the city and other plants is very possible.
In fact, it is possible that plane that went down in PA was headed for the three mile island reactor as a secondary target.

[TBall]

The only thing I know about nuke plants is that big fish hang out by the warm water.

[Arkinsaw]

Chicago is ringed by 10 nuclear power plants and this circle of nuke material is going to be their prime target area. If they can cause ONE melt down by crashing a jumbo jet into it the report is that: If the improbable happened and terrorists managed to attack and penetrate a nuclear reactor core at a plant, it could trigger an explosive meltdown that could spread radiation for hundreds of miles and trigger lethal health problems, if not immediate death among large populations. AND if it spread it for even 75 miles the other plants would all have to be shut down around chicago and possibly evacuated - the potential for huge losses of power and of the whole chicago metro area being irradiated for decades if not centuries is there. It is just a question of their will power and their opportunity to get another jumbo jet coming into chicago and hitting square one of those plants. Look at the map of power plants around chicago - hitting one of them so the winds there will carry the radioactivity over the city and other plants is very possible. In fact, it is possible that plane that went down in PA was headed for the three mile island reactor as a secondary target.

And then a giant crack will open up and everything south of the Fox River will fall into it triggering a massive dust cloud of concrete and cancer causing asbestos that will block out the sun preventing its warming rays from reaching the lower atmosphere which will trigger a global ice age. The weight of the ice will cause the poles to shift and increased El Nino activity as well as extinction of the human race. Or something like that.

[Thane_Banquo]

Hugh indeed. Vey series.