Nuclear Plant Scare: Explosives Found in Sweden

ABC ^ | 6/21/2012 | JO FIDGEN

[Hunton Peck]

Swedish officials have raised security levels at the country's nuclear power plants after a small amount of explosives, without its detonator, was discovered at one of the plants during a routine security check, local authorities said.

The explosive material, believed to be civilian-type explosives used in demolition or excavation, was about the size of a tennis ball and was found in a truck at Sweden's Ringhals nuclear power plant. The truck had been on its way from an industrial park into a secure area, but had never made it inside the facility, according to the Ringhals spokesman Gosta Larsen. Since the explosives lacked the detonator, there was no imminent danger, authorities said.

[Hunton Peck]

Given the small amount of and lack of detonator, my money would be on anti-nuke environmentalists trying to create a scare.

[cuban leaf]

So, somebody left an M-80 in their car? Just dang!

[no-to-illegals]

Reasonable theories, or was it a test? Am sorry the stuff was not placed under surveillance to see if anyone showed.

[sheik yerbouty]

Is this near Malmo? Malmo is infested with rabid adherents of TROP?

[Hunton Peck]

The story says the plant is near Goteburg. I think if it were Islamoterrorist-related, the amount of explosive would be enough to do serious damage, and there would have been a detonator.

[sheik yerbouty]

I think it’s a typo. I think it is Gothenburg. It is Sweden’s second biggest city. The build Volvos there, and have increasingly had problems with TROP.. The Swedes are Eloise to their Morlocks..