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Russians Protect Nuclear Plant in Terrorism Drill
Russian authorities successfully safeguarded a nuclear power plant from a mock attack in the Atom-2005 antiterrorism exercise that ended yesterday, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, Sept. 15). Fake terrorists infiltrated the town of Zarechnyy in the Sverdlovsk Region with the intent of attack government sites and the Beloyarsk plant, a source said. Authorities prepared a plan to uncover and disable the attackers. Additional patrols were placed around the plant, which is already tightly protected, RIA Novosti reported. Dogs were used to track the terrorists; they also detected explosives, weapons and drugs at checkpoints around the town. Several infiltrators were caught in the town before they could carry out the attack. The 10-day exercise involved personnel from the Russian Federal Security Service, the Interior Ministry, the Emergencies Ministry and the Atomic Energy Agency. It ended with a successful raid on a facility that had been taken over by the terrorists. The drill proved that the nuclear plant is adequately safeguarded against attack, according to the facility’s information center. Personnel involved in the drill also uncovered actual firearms and drugs and several wanted individuals in the midst of their work, RIA Novosti reported (RIA Novosti, Sept. 15).
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