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Nuke plants have 20 days to implement security measures
"Some of these requirements formalize a series of security measures that NRC licensees had taken in response to advisories issued by the NRC in the aftermath of the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks," the NRC said in a press release. "The commission views these compensatory measures as prudent, interim measures to address the high-level threat environment in a consistent manner throughout the nuclear reactor community."
Nuclear power plants in the United States have 20 days to implement enhanced security measures, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday.
An order for the new security measures, which was earlier reported in a Reuters story in the Philadelphia Inquirer as having been in effect since mid-February, is now effective immediately, according to NRC statements. Plant licensees now have 20 days to notify the NRC if they believe they would be unable to comply with any of the new security measures.
The enhanced security measures include requirements to:
- Increase patrols at nuclear power plants.
- Strengthen plant guard forces.
- Add security stations.
- Install physical barriers.
- Perform security checks at greater stand-off distances.
- Improve cooperation with law enforcement and military officials.
- Increase on-site access restrictions for plant personnel.