SECURITY is being stepped up in response to a dire warning from the UN
watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), about the escalating
risk of nuclear terrorism.
France has installed surface-to-air missiles around its nuclear reprocessing
complex at La Hague, while the US has set up 20-kilometre no-fly zones around 86
nuclear plants. British authorities are reluctant to talk about security
measures, but armed guards and concrete blocks have been installed at entrances,
and exclusion zones up to 600 metres high within a 3-kilometre radius of 12
nuclear power stations are now in place. On 27 October, two Tornado…
