Arizona Nuclear Plant on Lockdown

[BoogyMan]

I just noticed this one...


Source: Link (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SLN1UO1&show_article=1)

PHOENIX (AP) - Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small explosive device in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said.

The worker was stopped and detained at the entrance of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, said U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Victor Dricks. Security officials then put the nuclear station on lockdown, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving the facility.

Authorities described the device as a small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue.

Capt. Paul Chagolla with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said sheriff's officials have rendered the device safe and that investigators were interviewing the worker.

The plant was operating normally and there was no threat to the public, Palo Verde spokesman Jim McDonald said.

[piratemonkey]

I just noticed this one...

[quote=Breitbart]
Authorities described the device as a small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue.


I call BS on this story.

A "small capped pipe with suspicious residue" is NOT necessarily a "small explosive device."

I mean, let's use the slightest bit of common sense here.

If this guy had the intent to blow up something, would he be carrying around something that may (or may not) be a bomb casing with only "residue" in it? In the back of his truck? Why would he fill the pipe with explosives and then empty it? And then put it where any cop would pulled him over could find it?

It just doesn't pass the smell test.

I'll be anyone here one American dollar that this guy is not convicted of any crime at all.

[BoogyMan]

I think MSNBC is the only other outlet that has even carried any info about it so far.

**Update**
CNN has a banner notice up about it on their site but no content.