[glock rocks]

Funny. When I worked in nukes, the guards were there to keep you inside if there was a scram. Hope they’ve smartened a tad in the last couple decades.

[potlatch]

[Hope they’ve smartened a tad in the last couple decades.[

Well - they would have - had Obama not become President, lol.
Scary place to have terror suspects working, just like the airlines, food supply, and EVERYTHING!

[NormsRevenge]

This place is the second largest nuclear site in the country.

Certainly not the only site that might be prone to those that would seek to sabotage it or worse.

I spent a few hours going thru and hanging around security folks at nuke plants too.

Never met a sleeping guard,, and rarely an unarmed one..

but that’s been a few years and many more.. ;-)

[sefarkas]

When I worked in nukes, the guards were there to keep you inside if there was a scram. Hope they’ve smartened a tad in the last couple decades.

You have never worked in or near a nuclear plant in your lifetime. "Scram" is a term used a BWR to describe the sudden insertion of all of the control blades into the core to shutdown the chain reaction. Those control blades are routinely moved in and out of the core as the plant power level changes. A "scram" is when the reactor protection system (electronics) determines one or more of the measured characteristics of the core is out of spec. Guards do not play a role in the procedures used in scram recovery. Note that due to the way the nuclear plant is constructed (e.g., using enough concrete for over 50 miles of four lane Interstate Highway), some of the safest places on earth are inside the various control and meeting rooms of an American commercial nuclear power plant -- tornado, wind, flood, and earthquake resistant -- licensed against hypothetical conditions that can never actually occur.