Comment period on the Terrorist Threat to Nuclear Reactors Extended to February 22, 2006
Mail your comments to:
Secretary,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001,
ATTN: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff
Or E-mail comments to: SECY@nrc.gov
The NRC has extended the comment period until Feb. 22 on its proposed rulemaking on protecting reactors from terrorist attack. It is a critical issue; please send in a comment NOW!
More than four years after 9/11, NRC regulations still require reactors to have NO protection against air attack. And despite the fact that 19 attackers were involved on 9/11, NRC only requires reactors to have security designed to withstand a ground attack by a small fraction of that number.
The NRC rulemakiing remarkably proposes NO upgrades to current protections; it is by its own admission designed to merely codify the status quo. This is irresponsible, given that a successful terrorist attack could release enough radioactivity to produce tens of thousands of cancers and render an area the size of a big state uninhabitable for generations.
Please send in comments to NRC by February 22. Do so by email to SECY@nrc.gov; by fax to Secretary, NRC at (301) 415-1011; by mail to Secretary, NRC, Washington, DC 20555-0001 att'n: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff; or on the NRC rulemaking website at http://ruleforum.lln.gov. Place in the subject line: RIN 3150—AH60.
Key points to make:
1. Require reactors to be protected from air attack, for example by construction of "Beamhenge" shields made of steel I-beams and cables at stand-off distances from critical reactor structures.
2. Require reactors to be protected from ground attacks involving at least as many attackers (19) as seen on 9/11.
For more information, go to http://www.committeetobridgethegap.org.
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