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[cdn-nucl-l] Mounties protecting Lepreau 'burnt out'
Posted in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal on November 6, 2002 and
at:
http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=CE&Date=20021106&Catego
ry=TPEBRIEF&ArtNo=211060013&Ref=AR
I'd say these two RCMP guys deserve a pat on the back.
Why would anyone be surprised people can possess a list of all the
reactors in North America?
Canada:
www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/regulate/plants.htm
US (in convenient wall map form):
www.ans.org/pubs/maps/
And Mexico (1 plant, 2 units - each 654MW GE built BWR's commercial in
1990/95):
www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/mexico.html
In fact, here's all of them worldwide:
www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html
Adam
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Mounties protecting Lepreau 'burnt out'
BY RICHARD ROIK
Telegraph-Journal
Two RCMP officers protecting the Point Lepreau nuclear power station
from terrorists are "burnt out" and won't be replaced without new
federal funding, says Saint John Tory MP Elsie Wayne.
Mrs. Wayne told the House of Commons Tuesday "financial constraints" are
threatening the armed protection of Atlantic Canada's only nuclear power
station.
"I'm very concerned," Mrs. Wayne said in noting that the terrorist group
al-Qaida has been found to have a list of all of North America's nuclear
reactors.
She said she's been told existing funding for the two RCMP officers will
run out at the end of next March.
Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal acknowledged that enhanced
security at the country's nuclear reactors was developed as an
"immediate" response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last year.
He said the federal government is "looking at some long-term measures"
to ensure Canada meets international guidelines for protecting its
nuclear plants.
Mrs. Wayne said promises aren't enough.
"What they need to do is put the money in there very quickly," she said.
Mrs. Wayne said she has learned from the Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission that Point Lepreau should really have four armed officers.
Instead, Point Lepreau has only two officers working "24 hours a day,
seven days a week," Mrs. Wayne said.
"They are physically and mentally burnt out," she said, "and I can
understand that."
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