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Are civilian nuclear plants vulnerable to terror attacks?
By Rebecca LaFlure
Center for Public Integrity
Nuclear reactors are located 26 miles from the White House, in downtown Boston and in the Midwest near a 71,000-seat college football stadium. Yet more than a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, these facilities “are particularly vulnerable to sabotage attack,” say the authors of a new Pentagon-funded study. -
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Drilling Deeper: The Wealth of Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick
By Justin Elliott
ProPublica
President Obama’s energy secretary nominee Ernest Moniz is a nuclear scientist who spent the last decade serving on a range of boards and advisory councils for energy industry heavyweights, including some that do business with the Department of Energy.
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