Adequacy of Nuclear Powerplant Security

Excerpt from Adequacy of Nuclear Powerplant Security: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on Environment and Public Works ?United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 19, 1993 Senator Lieberman. The hearing will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to this hearing of the subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation. This morning, with the normal uncertainties of Senate scheduling, I want to indicate that there's a vote set to go off in about five minutes, and we have about 20 minutes. Senator Baucus and I, to get over there and come back. So I think wed like to start and give our opening statements, at least, and then see where we are. We may have to recess for a few moments. Today this subcommittee is going to look at the adequacy of the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions rules and regulations to protect nuclear powerplants from terrorism and sabotage. On February 7th of this year, an intruder drove through the gate at the Three Mile Island nuclear powerplant and proceeded into the protected area of the plant. He crashed his station wagon into the door of the turbine building and then ran inside the building, where it took four hours to find him. During that period, it was not known whether he was alone, whether he was armed, and what his intentions were. Fortunately, the intruder did no significant damage to the plant. Shortly after the incident, when I read about it, I wrote to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking for its own report on that incident. I asked the Nrc to explain whether it would have been better, for instance, to shut the plant down rather than keep it running at full power while the intruder was inside the turbine building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.