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...build them, has significantly improved its standards. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which oversees 103 reactors run by private operators at 64 sites across 31 states, says it has too. "What is in place right now is sufficient to give us confidence that these plants will be able to defend themselves," NRC chairman Nils Diaz tells TIME. But a tightly held NRC document reviewed by TIME raises serious questions about whether the government has set the bar too low and allowed plant operators to skimp on security. Many guards working in nuclear plants and some senior security experts working...
...case, the NRC does not require plant operators to defend against air attacks. A California antinuclear group, the Committee to Bridge the Gap, recently asked the NRC to order that shields of I-beams and steel cables be built around nuclear plants to stop airplanes from crashing into them. Antiaircraft batteries and the troops to operate them would also help but could pose hazards to innocent aircraft drifting off course. NRC officials say the likelihood of installing missiles or shields is virtually nil. The agency believes the place to thwart an aerial-attack plot is at the airport...
Another issue is the lack of imagination in the scenarios used for training guards at private plants. TIME is refraining from publishing DBT specifics on the weapons that nuclear plants must defend against, but the relatively small arsenal that the NRC gives the "attackers" in its drills doesn't impress Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican. The DBT attack force is barred from using many of the weapons detailed in the opening scenario of this story, but, says the Congressman, "if I were a terrorist, I'd feel more than free to use them." The agency doesn't require defenses...
...close-knit community like Harvard, one always walks a fine line of what is appropriate and what is not. As a result, we were constantly debating over which stories to run. When we were wrong, we issued corrections and sometimes apologized. While my initial reaction was to defend and justify the staff’s decisions at all costs, after listening to the views of our primary audience, the Harvard community at large, I realized that we didn’t always get it right...
...disgusted at our coverage. He gave me further feedback. Many other students had already flooded my e-mail inbox with similar feelings. The more I spoke with other students and administrators, the more I realized that he represented the feelings of the majority on this issue. I wanted to defend my organization because we had worked very hard to cover the story in the fairest way possible. When I looked at the picture we published, I could not deny that it appeared inappropriate. So, I did what I knew was right. As a leader of The Crimson, I took...