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<p>New Jersey counter-terrorism officials are denying a state lawmaker's claim that detailed plans of the Salem/Hope Creek nuclear power complex - situated across the Delaware River from Augustine Beach - were found in a cave in Afghanistan.</p> <p>Following a tour of the complex Tuesday, Assemblyman Gary Guear announced that a National Guard member had told legislators the plans had been found in a cave used by al-Qaida members.</p>

<p>San Francisco, April 3 (Bloomberg) -- California regulators plan to vote tomorrow on the revenue that PG&E Corp., Edison International and Sempra Energy utilities will receive this year from nuclear power plants and other generating stations they own.</p> <p>Under the plan proposed by a California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge, PG&E's Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's largest utility, will receive $2.88 billion, Edison's Southern California Edison will get $3.79 billion and Sempra's San Diego Gas & Electric will receive $466 million.</p>

Unbelievable! Download the bullet points of the Markey Nuclear Reactor Security Report...includes: The Report Indicates: 1.) The NRC does not know how many foreign nationals are employed at nuclear reactors... 2.) 21 US nuclear reactors are located within 5 miles of an airport, but 96% of all US reactors were designed without regard for the potential for impact from even a small aircraft 3.) Spent nuclear fuel in significant quantities exists at reactors all across the US and is stored in buildings that are not hardened structures, some of which reportedly have sheet metal roofs 4.) It took the NRC...

WASHINGTON - The nation's nuclear plants fail to screen workers for terrorist ties, making the facilities vulnerable to deadly attacks, U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) charged in a scathing report released today.<!ENDSUMM!> Warning of ``troubling black holes in homeland security,'' Markey said al-Qaeda or other terrorist operatives could be secretly working in some of the country's 86 most sensitive nuke facilities, waiting to strike. ``Terrorists may now be employed at nuclear reactors in the United States just as terrorists enrolled in flight schools in the U.S.,'' Markey said in his report: ``Security Gap: A Hard Look at Soft Spots...