Security Lapse at TVA’s Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant

[MJ]

http://www.pogo.org/p/homeland/ha-060802-nuclear.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 16, 2006
6:00 AM

CONTACT: Project On Government Oversight 
Jennifer Porter Gore
jgore at pogo.org 
Or Peter Stockton
202.347.1122
 
  
Security Lapse at TVA’s Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant 
  
WASHINGTON - August 16 - POGO has received a report of a security lapse
that occurred at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah Nuclear Power
Plant. Officials discovered last week that a sealed manufacturer’s crate
that had sat in a warehouse for an undetermined amount of time contained
30 M-4 assault rifles, which are similar to semiautomatic M16 rifles. 

The rifles had been delivered by a truck that entered the plant through
the vehicle entrance into the Protected Area. 

If this is true then it raises a serious security concern for a minimum of
two reasons: 


The weapons could have been delivered to an insider planning a hostage
situation or other violent action.


The crate could have contained explosives. The delivery should have at
least been stopped at the entrance and certainly not allowed to sit inside
the Protected Area for any period of time. 
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