Posted by
InchDeep on Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:52:51 AM
From /www.radionetherlands.nl
Published: Wednesday 21 May 2008 14:18 UTC
Last updated: Wednesday 21 May 2008 15:38 UTC
Police in southern Sweden have arrested two men suspected of attempting
to sabotage the nuclear power plant at Oskarshamn. The arrests were
made after traces of the high explosive TATP were found on a bag
belonging to a welder entering the plant. TATP, which is relatively
easy to make, was used by the British 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid when
he planned to blow up an aeroplane in 2001, and by the London bombers
in July 2005. Although an office building on the plant's property was
evacuated, the nuclear installation itself was not shut down.
The
Oskarshamn plant is one of Sweden's 10 nuclear power plants. Its three
reactors provide approximately 10 percent of the country's energy.