Shh! Swedish nuclear plant security missed Greenpeace activists for 28 hours

On Tuesday, we told you about the 70 activists who poured onto two nuclear sites in Sweden in an effort to show how lax the security is at these plants.

We didn’t tell you that at least six of them hid overnight at two of the plants: four at Ringhals and two at Forsmark.

They evaded security all night, and were only discovered when Greenpeace Sweden phoned the media early this morning to reveal their presence at the plants. This is despite the fact the operator Vattenfall said yesterday that “security had worked exactly as intended”. Oh dear.

One of the overnighters was Greenpeace International energy campaigner Lauri Myllyvirta. Here’s what he wrote about the experience: Continue reading

They will never learn, will they?

A full sized nuclear power plant that has been running for a few months has enough radioactive material in it to kill all life on Earth.   It’s also a very complicated and sensitive piece of technical equipment. It’s also, basically, a glorified steam engine, with intense heat and pressure forces balancing on a fine edge of containment.

In other words, a nuclear power plant is a catastrophe  waiting to happen, and a PERFECT magnet for someone who would want to cause major damage to the society. Continue reading