Nuclear Plant Security

Disclaimer: I'm merely judging the situation from the news I read. If there is something that I may have mistaken, please inform me.

Last month, around 11 Greenpeace activist tried to break in a French nuclear station, to proof that their nuclear stations are not reliable in "non-violent" methods. 2 managed to get in, all 11 later got detained under grounds of trespassing. The scenario sounds scary, reminding us that the threat of terrorist gaining nuclear materials is very real. Imagine if those two were actually trained terrorist, who have specific and technical know how to get away with these kind of things. What this proofs is to Western powers is that their nuclear security is low but they keep a close eye and scrutinize Russia for their Cold War era Nuclear Weapons.

To be clear, I am not advocating what the activist were doing. While I'm all for going green to "save"the planet, I'm against all this law breaking stuff. It will only reduce their cause and get them to be branded as eco-terrorist. This is not the first eco-terrorist styled act done by Greenpeace. There has been cases of them blowing up cars during riots, them handing out pamphlets to people on how to sabotage factories (and at times doing it). I love the Earth and all but their anarcho-green ideology seems to be too far. There are some Greenpeace activist are fine, pushing legislations in good ways but those anarchist are putting the others as the same category as them. Same case as those so called whale protectors in the coast of Japan we see in the series "Whale Wars" on TV. All you do is just causing violence, people get hurt and all you cause is trouble, making the message useless. They get painted as vigilantes and criminals, so what's the point. There are many other ways to proof your point rather than putting yourself or others in harms way.

Now the Interior Minister of France is upgrading the security of these power plants, I hope that people take their security seriously and no idiot tries to break in with violent methods because judging from the pictures below of the upgraded security, things could get pretty messy.

French riot gendarmes pose for the media in front of the Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Chinon, central France, January 6, 2012. France will take new measures to tighten security around its 58 nuclear power plants, Interior Minister Claude Gueant told daily Le Parisien on Friday, after Greenpeace activists succeeded in entering two of them last month.

French Interior Minister Claude Gueant (R) and President and CEO of French energy group EDF, Henri Proglio (C) look at weapons used by the nuclear plants special security squadrons on January 6, 2012, during a visit at the Avoine nuclear plant, prior to the presentation of a project to secure French nuclear power plants. Recommendations by France's nuclear watchdog agency to beef up safety at plants will cost EDF up to 10 billion euros (13 billion USD), an EDF senior executive told recently.

Now folks, you see that, beefing up security up to 10 billion Euros. At least security is something to invest on, rather than feeding it to the black hole called Greece. (No, I'm not being sarcastic.)