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Re: NRC website restored (somewhat)
You don't suppose that all of this becomes a mute point given that any
attack would probably be well planned with sufficient recon done to
accomplish the mission (including any necessary data logging using GPS).
I'm sure that any attack would not be done willy nilly at the spur the
moment, with final target selection accomplished by pulling some piece of
paper out of a hat...after all this isn't a scavenger hunt.
My opinions only...
DJWhitfill
maury
<maury@WEBTEXAS.COM> To: "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>
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10/26/01 07:17 PM
Please respond to maury
John, I can only say that I think (believe) that individuals in the upper
echelons of NRC know of sources like these. To emphasize: I have NO
FIRSTHAND
knowledge of NRC's awareness - I can only infer that there surely is a
sprinkling of NRC people at all levels who are aware of such charts and
maps.
I was wrong about the ease of pinpointing a nuclear plant on Sectional and
Terminal Area Charts for aviation - the scales respectively are 1:500,000
and
1:250,000 and there is not a dot on the chart showing the plant, but there
is a
marking for the highest obstruction[ e.g., cooling tower or radio antenna.
Thought I could recall which obstruction marking was the correct one at
Glen
Rose Texas just from having driven past it, but it has been too long ago.
In any
case, I apologize for this exaggeration..
The Geological Survey quadrangle charts , however, cover the entire US and
those
(used for example for backpacking, and so on) are available in the scales I
cited. Additionally, USGS aerial photo maps now cover very large areas (if
not
all) of the US. Some commercial aerial photography also is generally
available.
Finally, satellite photography covering most of the world has been
generally
available to the public in exquisitely detailed scales. I am confident that
finding power plants after having driven past them would pose no big
problem on
such photography. In all such instances, measuring lat/long is easy..
The whole issue of security vs. cost is intriguing. Security is not about
whether or not you can keep something secret; it is about what resources,
especially time, are required to find, break, or otherwise compromise that
which
you wish to keep secret. By this criterion, NRC has made it less convenient
to
pinpoint the lat/long of our nuclear power plants. Instead of looking on
the NRC
web site, now I have to dig up one of my topo charts to measure the numbers
for
the Texas Utilities Glen Rose NPP. Possibly this along with reassuring the
public is the rationale being used by NRC.
Maury Siskel maury@webtexas.com
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"Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" wrote:
> Maury,
> Do you think the NRC knows about this?
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> 3050 Traymore Lane
> Bowie, MD 20715-2024
>
> E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maury [mailto:maury@WEBTEXAS.COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:39 AM
> To: High Plains Drifter
> Cc: Sandy Perle; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Re: NRC website restored (somewhat)
>
> In this instance, the precise lat/long of any plant in the US can be
measured
> quite accurately
> (what error percentage would you like?) on sectional aeronautical charts,
or
> USGS topo
> maps at scales (detail) as large as 1/25,000, as well as from other
sources.
> .
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