The investigation into Monday’s suicide bombings at a Brussels airport and a Metro station is reportedly prompting fears that the Islamic State is looking to obtain nuclear material and increasing concerns about security at Belgium’s nuclear faciilities.
Belgium’s nuclear agency said Friday it withdrew the entry badges of some staff and denied access to other people recently amid concerns that the next terror attack could take place at one of the facilities. Employees were sent home hours after the attacks in Brussels.
The New York Times reported that surveillance footage of a top official at a separate site was found last year in the apartment of a terror suspect linked to the extremists who carried out the atrocities in Paris in November.
Note, this just came out this morning here in Europe, but a security guy at the Charleroi nuke plant was killed outside the fence while on his nightly security walk, Thursday night. His badge was taken. Gun was used to kill the guy....no other info.
The Belgium government has a tendency to shut down all information and hold everything from the public, but this will be out in full force by tonight. I think it’ll scare the heck out of most people, and it’ll go through neighbors very quickly.
On the other side of this discussion....it would require a fair amount of manpower to get across the secure area and into a control area where they might jeopardize the plant. More than a three or four man operation, if you ask me.
Think over the past ten odd years the stories that pop up in the news about foreign students or foreign tourists caught trespassing or photographing critical sites in the US- dams, bridges, power generating facilities, nuclear sites.
And always, the stories read as if they are some confused rubes who are never detained, or arrested.
when I read this article, I immediately thought of Tennessee. We need to be more vigilant.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/tennessee-shooter-worked-briefly-at-nuclear-plant/
Let me check the main gate guard post duty roster.
0600 - 1200 Mohammed Hydaiet
1200 - 1800 Mohammed Hussein
1800 - 0000 Saddam Mohammed
0000 - 0600 Mohammed Aziz
No problem, we got it covered.
I would be more concerned about weapons storage sites under NATO than a nuclear plant....
Geeez. Lube oil for the turbine has nothing to due with any kind of reactor valve. Getting into the turbine hall is not the same as getting into the containment while the plant is operating. Operating a valve for the lube oil could have been done locally. It wouldn’t require access to the control room.
Stating a reactor valve was operated is bogus.