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...defenses. Eleven states have already called up the National Guard to help in that effort. The faa also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed could pierce the concrete dome that protects the reactor core...
Healy refused to comment further about how the reactor is kept secure, and told the council that “security procedures are confidential...
...That reactor has been there for a long time—it was old when I was a student there in the 1970s,” Born said. “I think if there were some visible security there it might be a great way to reassure the public...
Healy told the council that he had met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the reactor, and that it had approved some of his suggestions...
Councillor Marjorie C. Decker advocated that the parking lots adjacent to the reactor be shut down—and that the manager tell the council in a closed session about the reactor’s safety and other confidential safety matters...