Gunman Sought After Shootout at Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee

US News • April 2013 • Views: 1,224

Police are looking for a suspect who used a boat to access a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant Sunday morning and exchanged fire with a security guard on the plant grounds before fleeing downriver.

The shootout occurred “several hundred yards from the site’s protected area, which houses the reactor and power production facilities,” TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said in a press release.

A security guard on routine rounds reportedly spotted the suspect leaving his boat and walking ashore about 2 a.m. When the guard advanced to question the suspect, the lone man began shooting. The guard returned fire and called for backup. The suspect then “sped away on his boat,” according to a local news report.

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6 comments

theheat Mon, Apr 22, 2013 12:30:28pm

You would think a nuclear power plant might be a little more prepared than watching a boat speed away, no? Like, maybe helicopters standing by? FFS, hospitals are better equipped. And nuclear proponents wonder why people have such concerns.

“Nossir, Skeeter couldn’t catch him. It’s not like we had boats or helicopters or nuthin’.”

Dr. Matt Mon, Apr 22, 2013 12:32:31pm

Just another law abiding gun owner exercising his 2A.

Political Atheist Mon, Apr 22, 2013 12:46:48pm

Drunk moonshiner.

klys Mon, Apr 22, 2013 6:36:23pm

re: #1 theheat

You would think a nuclear power plant might be a little more prepared than watching a boat speed away, no? Like, maybe helicopters standing by? FFS, hospitals are better equipped. And nuclear proponents wonder why people have such concerns.

“Nossir, Skeeter couldn’t catch him. It’s not like we had boats or helicopters or nuthin’.”

Hospitals have a legit reason to have helicopters standing by. I can’t quite come up with one that really works for nuclear power plants.

I mean, there are other things you can shit on power plants for - preparedness for natural disasters hasn’t necessarily been their forte, or training of operators. But not having a helicopter on standby for security purposes …?

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Apr 22, 2013 7:31:59pm

re: #1 theheat

You would think a nuclear power plant might be a little more prepared than watching a boat speed away, no? Like, maybe helicopters standing by? FFS, hospitals are better equipped. And nuclear proponents wonder why people have such concerns.

“Nossir, Skeeter couldn’t catch him. It’s not like we had boats or helicopters or nuthin’.”

Really? Why would I think plant security should have all sorts of methods available at a moment’s notice for pursuing the perp off the plant property? That isn’t their job. He was spotted as soon as he landed and had no chance of reaching the plant. Security did its actual job.

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Apr 22, 2013 7:46:55pm

Cover up! Cover up! Don’t you sheeple see it? The terrorists are taking to the water. First the Boston bomber is found in a small boat, and the enemedia pretend it was just a convenient hiding place. But then another gunman assaults a nuclear plant from (what else?) a small boat and Obama and the administration say nothing! The enemedia pretend it’s coincidence! No telling what kind of water-borne havoc the Boston guy intended to wreak with the boat he “just happened to run across” while he was fleeing a gunfight. They aren’t fooling me, or great patriots like Alex Jones!

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