Column: NRC staffers, Edison, say things are safe as they are.
When San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was splitting atoms, it had to play — and win —“Force-on-force” exercises — i.e., simulated terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants, pitting a mock adversary force against a plant’s security force — are required for operating commercial reactors by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Edison has an armed, 24/7 security presence, officials said, but neither the current regulatory framework nor the staff recommendations — which will be considered soon — requires that. And an armed response force doesn’t have to be able to interdict and neutralize attackers — it only has to detect them and call for help, Lyman said.Complicating matters, at least in Lyman’s eyes, is Edison’s
On-site officials essentially call 911, which could happen in less than a minute after an adversary penetrated the protected area’s intrusion detection system, if it wasn’t detected before then. “Neutralization” of the adversary is the responsibility of law enforcement, not of Edison. “Over the past 25 years, there have been no known or suspected attempts to sabotage, or to steal, radioactive material from storage casks at , or to directly attack one,” the report says. “Nevertheless, NRC is continually evaluating the threat environment to determine whether any specific threat …exists.”
“Because of the uncertainty inherent in assessing the likelihood of a terrorist attack and the unlimited number of potential scenarios, the NRC recognizes that under general credible threat conditions, although the probability of such an attack is believed to be low, it cannot be reliably quantified,” it says.
“Also, during any accident scenarios, which is highly improbable but nevertheless evaluated, the result was that the calculated accident dose was shown to be well within federal limits.”
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