Security
Entrance Guard Rule Effort Bungled by NRC
Submitted by webEditor on Mon, 03/16/2009 - 20:23This report details how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission bungled an effort to create a new rule to require entrance guards at nuclear power plants.
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Scott Portzline keeps watch on TMI security
Submitted by webEditor on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 12:25Scott Portzline has kept watch on security issues at Three Mile Island for 25 years.
Web sites provide a glimpse of TMI security, raising concern for safety
Submitted by webEditor on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 10:04A watchdog group thinks satellite images could pose a risk, but the nuclear plant says no security measures are compromised.
Monday, June 08, 2009
BY MONICA VON DOBENECK mdobeneck@patriot-news.com
Visitors at Three Mile Island are asked not to photograph guard towers, vehicle barriers and other security measures. Yet these items are easily seen on the Internet through such sites as Microsoft's maps.live.com, now bing.com/maps.
Scott Portzline, a consultant for the watchdog group Three Mile Island Alert, thinks this is a security problem.
He has monitored sites such as Google Earth, which bring satellite images to home computers, for several years. Recently, he said, the level of detail has increased.
Still Cause for Concern at TMI
Submitted by webEditor on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 17:09Security Is Better, but Steps Don't Go Far Enough
By Scott Portzline
In the summer before the 9-11 attacks, Al Qaeda operatives traveled to Three Mile Island on a surveillance mission.
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What's Wrong With the NRC Fact Sheet on the 1979 Accident?
Submitted by webEditor on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 14:21
Re-published by Three Mile Island Alert - February 2009
Originally published March 2004
Because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission continues to publicize false
information about the TMI accident, we correct the record once again. The
NRC’s erroneous statements are listed in the red text which follows.
“The main feedwater pumps stopped running, caused by either a mechanical
or electrical failure, which prevented the steam generators from removing
heat.”
TMIA addresses NRC before Peach Bottom inspection
Submitted by webEditor on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 17:58 "Perhaps most intriguing to our community is that it took four sleeping
incidents at Three Mile Island (which is owned by the same company and
contacts to the same security vendor) before the NRC woke up and announced a
bizarre strategy to probe sleeping on the job."
To read the complete letter from TMIA to the NRC, open pdf.
Lost And Stolen Nuclear Materials in the U.S.
Submitted by webEditor on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 11:01
Lost and Stolen Nuclear Materials in the United States
"Right now, people are being irradiated..."
By Scott Portzline
Radiation can harm people without their knowledge since one can’t see it, hear it, feel it, taste it or smell it. You can be quite certain that there are numerous radioactive sources in position to harm or ultimately kill someone. Some of these sources will have been intentionally placed to cause injury or even death. For example -- someone deliberately contaminated the water cooler at the National Institute of Health two years ago.
