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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I’m really surprised, UT. I worked a dozens of nukes between ’70 & ’83, and security was always very tight. Undercar mirrors, hand searched baggage and training verification we’re standard. One plant had a gumball machine with black and white marbles, if you got a black one, you also got a body search.
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In 2000 and 2001 I drove right up the buildings that were Susquehanna (Berwick PA) and Peach Bottom nuclear plants. Drove right onto the pier to touch the cooling system for Peach Bottom. Rode a bicycle right up to the chain link fence just outside (and a stone through away from) the Limerick nuclear plant. Never saw a single guard. Never was challenged by anyone at any of those plants.
Yankee Maine nuclear plant had shutdown by 2001. But the pools full of spent nuclear material remained completely unguarded the day WTC collapsed. I don't believe for a moment that undercar mirrors were standard. Even Vandenburg AFB required only a paper pass on the windshield as a guard stood rigidly at attention saluting each car as it entered.
When did I see my first undercar mirror search? In the White House parking lot as I rode through. Before WTC, many public Washington buildings did have package inspections and undercar mirrors. Outside of Washington - never saw any of that.