Power plants armed (Wales)

[struggle4progress]

Aug 14 2005




Marc Baker, Wales on Sunday


ARMED police will provide round-the-clock protection at Wales' nuclear power station from next year to protect it from terrorists.

Full-time firearms officers will patrol the reactors at Wylfa on Anglesey and Hinkley Point on the Severn Estuary, facing the South Wales coast, to counter an al-Qaeda-style threat.

Although a handful of temporary armed guards arrived at the plants earlier this year, it will be the first time the stations will benefit from 24-hour protection. Previously, the plants relied on unarmed civilian officers.

Break-and-enter terrorists would be unlikely to be able to build a bomb from anything stolen from a nuclear plant.But security experts fear they might use radioactive material in a so-called dirty bomb in which conventional explosives would be used to spread nuclear contamination over a widespread area. <snip>

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15856340&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=power-plants-armed-name_page.html

[DS1]

1. they should have ground to air missiles, as well

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. But, but Tony . . ?? - Aren't we safer now . . ?

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Meybe we should help them Murikkkans bomb another country all to shit ????


and from the posted Article:

"More than 500 firearms officers are currently being trained by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) to protect Britain's nuclear power sites. The CNC has refused to comment on whether their guards will use machine guns."


AYE

Good thing we helped destroy that menacing Iraqi country, eh lads ???

(sigh)

[Massacure]

3. Of course the guards won't use machine guns.

I think whoever said this meant assault rifles.