MURMANSK, September 28 (AVN) -- As much as 180 agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and servicemen of the Russian Interior Ministry's troops on Tuesday established 24-hour cordons around the Kola nuclear power plant in the Polyarnye Zori town in the northern Russian Murmansk region, Yuri Kolomtsev, head of the plant's administratio,n told the Military News Agency.
According to him, FSB agents and troops set checkpoins on all access roads to the plant and took all vehicles out of its territory. The measures were taken due to an increasing threat of terrorist acts, but there are several other reasons behind this decision, Kolomtsev said.
One of them is the continuing theft of non-ferrous metals, he continued. In April, a local resident broke into Reactor One of the plant, stole several electronic devices and damaged sensors of the turbine control system. His presence was, however, registered by the emergency protection system, which automatically stopped the reactor.
A similar incident was registered in May, when thieves broke into Reactor Four and stole two intermediate blocks of the ejectors radiation control system, which left the personnel without control over the reactor's radioactive overshoots for several days, Kolomtsev said.