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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1549630600275{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_message]SPFPA is proud of to represent the most highly trained security professionals working at nearly half the nuclear facilities in the United States.
Nuclear power plants pose two basic security concerns. First, all nuclear reactors both use and produce radioactive elements (e.g., uranium and plutonium) that can be used to build nuclear weapons. Second, all reactors and nuclear-waste storage facilities contain large amounts of radioactive material. This material might be stolen for later use as a terrorist weapon (e.g., by being combined with conventional explosives to form a radiological dispersal weapon, also termed a “dirty bomb”) or, in the case of concentrated fuel, to build nuclear weapons. Alternatively, radioactivity might be released directly to the environment by sabotaging safety systems or blowing up a facility with missiles, planted charges, or hijacked jet aircraft. Thus, nuclear facilities on a nation’s own territory threaten its security as a target of enemy action, while nuclear facilities on an enemy’s territory threaten security as a possible source of nuclear weapons.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]