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U.S. Response I: Nuclear Plant Successfully Defeats Mock Attack Private guards at a New York state nuclear power plant successfully repelled a mock terrorist attack during a recent exercise, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Nils Diaz said in a letter released yesterday (see GSN, June 11). The letter, sent to New York Governor George Pataki, Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and other officials, said the Indian Point nuclear plant had a “strong defense strategy and capability” and that the private guard force had “successfully protected the plant from repeated mock-adversary attacks.” Some environmental activists, however, have criticized the exercise, according to the New York Times. Alex Matthiessen, director of the environmental group Riverkeeper, said the exercise was unrealistic because the guards knew about it months in advance and that it did not represent a suicide-type attack. “When the NRC conducts a drill that tests post-9/11 terrorist scenarios and when they allow truly independent observers and experts to observe the drill, only then will I begin to believe that Indian Point’s security is robust or adequate,” Matthiessen said (Lydia Polgreen, New York Times, Aug. 12)
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