Posted on 05/22/2008 10:58:45 PM PDT by newbie2008
Police in southern Sweden have arrested two men suspected of attempting to sabotage the nuclear power plant at Oskarshamn. The arrests were made after traces of the high explosive TATP were found on a bag belonging to a welder entering the plant. TATP, which is relatively easy to make, was used by the British 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid when he planned to blow up an aeroplane in 2001, and by the London bombers in July 2005. Although an office building on the plant's property was evacuated, the nuclear installation itself was not shut down.
The Oskarshamn plant is one of Sweden's 10 nuclear power plants. Its three reactors provide approximately 10 percent of the country's energy.
Wow! Nuclear power is viable?
:-)
More Mennonites on the rampage?
“Traces” is a little nebulous; lots of things give false positives for lots of other things. We might want to wait on developments here.
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