Feature story - June 1, 2004
Greenpeace questioned whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner's briefing on Bin Laden included the terrorists' intent to stike at U.S. nuclear reactor, a fact the FBI was aware of since the mid 1990's.
Greenpeace also questioned why, even after being briefed for 45
minutes on Bin Laden, the NRC voted to turn nuclear power plant
security into an unenforcable voluntary industry program.
NRC's letter was - at best - unresponsive to our questions.
The Commissioner failed to answer the most basic of questions:
what the NRC knew about the terrorist threat to nuclear power
plants and when and instead hid behind claims of national security
as reasons for not answering the questions rasied by
Greenpeace.
The information discovered by
Greenpeace has been forwarded to those responsible for NRC
oversight in the House and Senate.