Dive Summary:
- All 107 of America’s nuclear reactors are vulnerable to terrorism such as sabotage attacks and theft of bomb-grade nuclear materials, a new report by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas at Austin concludes.
- The report highlighted 11 reactors that were most at risk. “That included eight reactors that were deemed unprotected from attacks from the sea: Diablo Canyon in California, St. Lucie in Florida, Brunswick in North Carolina, Surry in Virginia, Indian Point in New York, Millstone in Connecticut, Pilgrim in Massachusetts, and the South Texas Project,” CBS News reported.
- That list also included three civilian reactors fueled with bomb-grade uranium located at the University of Missouri in Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is located about 25 miles from the White House.
From the article:
"More than 10 years have come and gone since the events of September 2001, and America's civilian nuclear facilities remain unprotected against a terrorist attack of that scale," said report co-author Alan J. Kuperman. "Instead, our civilian reactors prepare only against a much smaller-scale attack."