16.08 US Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Terrorist Threat � Report

WASHINGTON, August 15 (RIA Novosti) � Security measures at US commercial and research nuclear facilities do not provide adequate protection against potential terrorist threats, a report by researchers at the University of Texas says.

The report, prepared under a contract for the Pentagon by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP) and released on Thursday, provides a comparative analysis of threat assessment at nuclear facilities in the United States used by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Defense (DOD).

Titled �Protecting U.S. Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack: Re-assessing the Current