Still no paintball guns :-(
Jaro
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NUKE RAIDERS DID BEAT THE BARRIER
Mirror, 1 March 2003
By AIDAN McGURRAN
THE inner security barrier at Sizewell B nuclear power station WAS breached by Greenpeace protesters, the UK Government admitted yesterday.
The raiders, joined by Daily Mirror reporter Rosa Prince and photographer Phil Harris, showed how exposed the Suffolk plant is to terrorist attack.
The Government immediately insisted that none of the internal security barriers had been penetrated.
But in a written statement yesterday, British Energy Minister Brian Wilson said a later inspection "has established that some of the intruders entered through a door which amounted to a breach of the Sizewell inner security barrier."
The statement added: "Further defences within the inner security barrier contained the intruders and I should stress that at no time were any sensitive areas of the plant breached."
During the raid in January - on the day Tony Blair urged greater public vigilance in the war on terror - activists got through two wire fences and stood 40ft from the plant's nerve centre.
One group even managed to enter Sizewell's control building for three hours. Five other campaigners scaled the 120ft dome containing the plant's reactor.
Mr Wilson said yesterday that action has been taken to prevent a repeat of the infiltration.