NRC to keep reactor details secret
"We need to blacken some of our processes so that our adversaries won't have that information," said Roy Zimmerman, director of the commission's Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, which was created after the attacks.
NRC spokesman Scott Burnell said commissioners voted to take the step March 29, but kept it quiet as agency staff worked to implement the plan. The vote itself was revealed Wednesday and had nothing to do with this week's warnings that terrorists had surveyed U.S. financial institutions, Burnell said.
"We deliberated for many months on finding the balance between the NRC's commitment to openness and the concern that sensitive information might be misused by those who wish us harm," commission Chairman Nils Diaz said in a written statement.
Penn State CentreDaily/AP 05.Aug.04
Access to the decision-making process, even more than the information withheld, is becoming more pertinent hourly.
These men are drawing tighter and tighter boundaries around themselves, leaving more and more people outside them. We all trust in God, and God is standing right behind them, telling them what to do.
The converse is unthinkable. That the world is in the hands of madmen whose damage increases their madness, which in turn increases the damage they cause. I keep using the word "Satanic" then stepping back from it. But what else is it? Something that hates life, that enslaves what it doesn't kill, that poisons everywhere and violates innocence universally; that has no honor and takes its power and glory from the profane, while it shrieks about the rules and points to each lettered law to rationalize its own legality.
Legality and innocence are not synonyms. The road to hell is paved with what were good intentions.
