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...Cameron Diaz...
...part, Diaz insists that the improvements made in the nation's nuclear plants since 9/11 are adequate. They have included adding physical barriers, checking approaching vehicles at greater stand-off distances and improving coordination with local police and military authorities. Says the NRC chief: "Any terrorist who looks at one of these facilities is going to say, 'This is a hardened target, and I'm not going to have any confidence that I am going to be successful [attacking it].'" Plants have also improved training for guards and capped their workweeks at 72 hours to eliminate the not-uncommon tendency...
...test the plants regularly, The NRC and industry representatives argued against such a federalized force on the ground that the close cooperation between plant operators and guards would be lost if federal employees were protecting the plants. "That would actually create almost a barrier between security and safety," Diaz tells TIME...
...Wackenhut's fake attackers aren't holding back when they launch a mock strike against a plant Wackenhut workers are defending. "It's going to be pretty obvious if the adversary force is taking it easy," says Richard Michau, president of Wackenhut's nuclear-services division. The NRC's Diaz says hiring Wackenhut was necessary to get a beefed-up fake-attack force on the job quickly. "I believe we have reached a very good compromise," he says, "with the NRC owning the exercise and Wackenhut planning...
...needed urgently." It said twice that the review should be done by someone "independent of the NRC and the nuclear industry." That's a frightening postscript. Since 9/11, virtually everything having to do with nuclear-plant security has been in the hands of the NRC and the nuclear industry. Diaz takes offense at the N.A.S.'s pointed snub of his agency's expertise. "The recommendation was not well justified," he says. "I don't believe we need anybody to come in and do it, because nobody can do it better than we can." --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris