Reply #12: If they don't have the wherewithal to protect the Pentagon, for [View All]

chrissake, how are they going to protect a nuclear reactor? You can drive a car right up to the reactor at the Oyster Creek plant. The local news did it-TWICE. Once before they let the plant know they were going to try it. And again, after they showed the plant the tape of the news crew's approach and the ease of it. They assured the news crew that they were in the process of beefing up security, but when they went back three months later, nothing had been done. That was the winter of 2001-2002.
They still have not done anything. This is the longest-running commercial reactor in the country, very dirty. Lots of people live, work and drive very close to this reactor. They have virtually no evacuation plan. (There was a forest fire along the parkway-which would be the main evacuation route-last summer. Traffic on the GSP is a nightmare in the summer, if you've ever been on it, you know what I mean. The traffic was at a standstill for approximately three hours. This was mostly normal shore traffic, not hundreds of panicky people fleeing for their lives, as they would be, in the case of a nuclear emergency.)
I live approximately 20 miles away from this plant, not too far from an accident, depending on which way the wind blows. If they want more plants, they should make them safe, protect them and come up with a viable plan to deal with the waste.