LBN crosspost: "Video of Sleeping Guards Shakes Nuclear Industry" (Washington Post)

[bananas]

You're doing a heckuva job, NRC!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3124763

When he spoke to supervisors at his company, Wackenhut Corp., they told Beal to be a team player. When he alerted the regional office of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, regulators let the matter drop after the plant's owner, Exelon, said it found no evidence of guards asleep on the job.

So Beal videotaped the sleeping guards. The tape, eventually given to WCBS, a CBS television affiliate in New York City, showed the armed workers snoozing against walls, slumped on tabletops or with eyes closed and heads bobbing.

The fallout of the broadcast is still being felt. Last month, Exelon, the country's largest provider of nuclear power, fired Wackenhut, which had guarded each of its 10 nuclear plants. The NRC is reviewing its own oversight procedures, having failed to heed Beal's warning. And Wackenhut says that the entire nuclear industry needs to rethink security if it hopes to meet the tougher standards the NRC has tried to impose since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

[MADem]

1. WACKENHUT I mean...really. What an absurd name. It invites ridicule. nt

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Makes one wonder about the security of the Nuclear Missiles, no?

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Oh yeah, your military flies them nukes around your country but that's no big deal

So a Nuclear Plant with sleeping guards?

What's all the fuss about . . .

We know that no "terrorists" wanna hurt the benevolent ole United States of America

OH YEAH ! ! !

Y'all NEED another calamity down there so Bush-co can do the Martial Law thing

OOPS sorry

Election canceled till we catch the perps . . .

makes one ponder . . . .