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Next Generation Nuclear Security Summit - April 12-13, 2010
Time to Think Safety-Security
Source: 
The Korea Times
Date Released: 
August 8, 2011

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster gave terrorists and other malefactors a tip. By targeting nuclear plants, they can wreak havoc comparable to that wrought by an earthquake and tsunami, crippling a great economic and military power.  A terrorist version of Fukushima is plausible ― with all the human suffering, economic dislocation and national humiliation the March 2011 cataclysm entailed. Both safety and security must be enhanced at nuclear installations around the world.