Bombs at atom plants

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34107, 20 March 1976, Page 15

Bombs at atom plants

t.v Z P A Reuter—Copyright I WASHINGTON, March 19. The United States Nuclear (Regulatory Commission says there have been two in- , cidents since 19(59 where explosives have been planted ■at nuclear reactors in the United States and more than 1100 others cases where (bomb threats have been made but not carried out. An N.R.C. spokesman said yesterday that dynamite was found outside a research reactor at the University of 11-j (linois, Urbana, in 1969. A pipe-bomb was found at the Point Beach atomic-power! station in Wisconsin a few ( itk iths before it went into! operation in late 1970; Both were defused beforeianv • {plosion could occur. I The N.R.C. said it had (turned over a list of all i threats since 1969 to a ' Ralph Nader organisation ■that had requested the data. Mr Nader has been camnr-' ing for a nationwide Moratorium on new nuclear -reactors, basing many of his! arguments on the threat! posed by terrorists who 1 might damage a plant and let radiation escape. or (might break into a plant and! steal bomb-grade uranium to! I use in nuclear blackmail.' 1