On Friday, November 2, the Palo Verde nuclear power facility was shut down for most of the day.
Why?
A pipe bomb in someone’s truck. It seems that someone placed the pipe bomb in the engineer’s pick up truck bed. It was found by security as part of its normal check in procedures, and the bomb would not have had too much damage. They said it would only damage the truck. But what if the engineer, or someone else at the plant, moved the pipe bomb to a more critical location?
There are homes only a few miles away from the three nuclear generators.
How safe can nuclear really be if they have those kind of security measures in place? And I do not think these measures are only post-9/11.
What would happen if a pipe bomb went off at a solar facility? Except for some dangerous shards of glass, I suspect not much. It would have to be a large well placed bomb to do anything to a hydroelectric dam or to a coal fired plant. And except for the potential loss of power, homes a mile away would not be in danger. The ground, air and water would not be contaminated with radiation for thousands of years.
