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U.S. Response: NRC Orders Nuclear Plants to Increase Security The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday ordered all 103 U.S. nuclear power plants to tighten and improve security to better protect against a terrorist attack (see GSN, Feb. 13). Under the new security measures, cars and trucks arriving at nuclear power plants will be stopped at a farther distance from the plant’s gates, the NRC said. Plant employees also will be more restricted inside plants and there will be increased screening and identification checks of contractors and plant visitors. The new security measures are an enhancement to those already in place at nuclear plants, said the Nuclear Energy Institute, the main lobbying group for the U.S. nuclear industry. “We’re talking about refinements on the margin, given that there are already well-trained and well-armed security forces in place,” said NEI spokesman Steve Kerekes. Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass.), however, criticized the new NRC security upgrades. The new measures are “too little, too late and too temporary,” Markey said (Julie Vorman, Reuters/Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 15).
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