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 When Greenpeace did infringe on the Forsmark nuclear power plant was challenged intrusion protection at the facility. Now the proposal that the guards should have to be armed.
After Greenpeace intrusion 2010: stewards of the Swedish nuclear power plants is proposed to have a firearm to stop terrorists and invaders.
Radiation Safety and the National Police Board is proposing in an
investigation, which today has been submitted to the Government, that
the guards at nuclear power plants should be trained in handling weapons
and armed with service pistols to protect the plants.
The works should have their own security forces that can disrupt and delay the terrorist attacks while waiting for the police get there, says Stig Isaksson, inspector of SSM, SSM.
Today it is not allowed for security personnel employed by power
companies to arm themselves with firearms. It required several
amendments on the proposal for the new, stronger powers for the guards
to become a reality.
SSM can also imagine that the police or armed forces to take
responsibility and form stationary forces, that is, one can imagine
either a nuclear police, like the one we have in the UK, or a military
nuclear power.
But the latter is opposed to the National Police, which notified the dissenting opinion in the investigation.
There is already protection guards in the current situation on the
plants that we see are useful and which can form an armed protection
force, said Per Engstrom, section chief at the National Police.
Stig Isaksson, the SSM said that the agency made an extensive study of
the capacity needed for plants to resist the powerful force attack and
that both the police and military forces can provide alternatives. They
want the government closer to deal with and investigate the issue.
Armed security forces are not at least in the U.S., where the guards have automatic weapons.
Where the task is to stop the perpetrators and terrorists. In Europe,
several countries have armed guards to delay the attackers, before the
police arrived, said Stig Isaksson.
After several representatives of the environmental organization
Greenpeace has been over the fence at the Forsmark nuclear power plant
in June 2010 with the help of an old French fire engine with ladder,
challenging the intrusion protection for the plants in the event that
more malicious spirit attacker, which terrorists could attack the
plants.
The then Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren to appoint a commission on terrorist protection at Swedish nuclear plants.
The report also suggested that larger buffer zones to separate the areas
around nuclear reactors, to this day. Per Engstrom says that
protection zones need to be increased by at least a few kilometers.
The consultation will establish that the guards will have the powers to control vehicles on access roads to the facilities.
If you had had that opportunity at Forsmark Greenpeace had never managed to enter, they were stopped on the road, he says. Stig Isaksson said that under the Security Service has been no terrorist threat to the Swedish nuclear power plants at present. But we need a boost for the future, he says.
The authorities also proposes increased penalties for infringement of
nuclear power plants and the safe transport of nuclear materials should
be reviewed. The police will also be able to use helicopters to quickly
be on site.
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