Report: All 107 US Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable To Terrorists | digtriad.com

new report (PDF) from the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

all 107 commercial nuclear power reactors were thought to be vulnerable, the report spotlighted 11 that were most at risk. That included eight reactors that were deemed unprotected from attacks from the sea: Diablo Canyon in California, St. Lucie in Florida, Brunswick in North Carolina, Surry in Virginia, Indian Point in New York, Millstone in Connecticut, Pilgrim in Massachusetts, and the South Texas Project.

Three civilian reactors fueled with bomb-grade uranium were also deemed particularly vulnerable. They are housed at the University of Missouri in Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology - which is within 25 miles of the White House. Unlike military facilities that hold bomb-grade uranium, the report found, these facilities are not sufficiently defended against a credible terrorist threat.

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This is the apparent PDF file which the article is speaking:  http://blogs.utexas.edu/nppp/files/2013/08/NPPP-working-paper-1-2013-Aug-15.pdf

Boone County will receive $4,837 from video gaming for the month of July 2013

 

The above is taken from:  http://www.igb.illinois.gov/revreportsVG/VGStat201307.pdf

Poplar Grove votes to allow video gaming machines in town | Belvidere Daily Republican

Michelle Burke, manager of Mortimer’s Roadhouse and Grill, was at the meeting and said she was “thrilled” by the vote.

“I’m happy our customers will no longer be going somewhere else to play,” she said.

Mortimer’s has received approval of its application for a state license and now can have up to five machines on its premises.

Burke said there already are machines at Boone County establishments in Belvidere, Capron and Garden Prairie.

John Patch of Allied Gaming said villages Poplar Grove’s size that have machines are averaging $1,300 to $1,700 a month in revenue. They get 5 percent of the revenue from each game.

Poplar Grove votes to allow video gaming machines in town | Belvidere Daily Republican

Annexation of Candlewick Lake back on table | Belvidere Daily Republican

Written by Bob Balgemann

two Candlewick Lake residents appearing before the Poplar Grove Village Board Monday night and encouraging talks with the association’s board of directors.

Resident Lennard Lund said he thought four of the six Candlewick Lake Association board members would be agreeable to hearing what Poplar Grove officials had to say. He said he also thought annexation would bring benefits to both the village and his community.

Agreement came from another Candlewick Lake resident, Phil Saia, who also asked Poplar Grove officials to approach the association board. He said residents are having major problems with the company that supplies the community with water and with the cost of water. Some who live there currently are paying $100 to $140 a month for water, he claimed.

Newly seated village trustee Owen Costanza also lives in Candlewick Lake and said when he moved there, his bill was $25.

A civic organization within Candlewick Lake pursued incorporation in 2011. But the Candlewick Voice attempt was thrown out in circuit court late that year and no referendum ever was held.

Saia told trustees and village president John Neitzel that he would call them in to security, should they want to come into the gated community and talk with the board of directors. Monthly meetings start at 7 p.m., with a public forum at 6:30 p.m.

Neitzel said annexation “is a much more difficult process than ‘let’s do it,’ Many layers of due diligence would have to be done. I’m not opposed to exploring the possibility. That’s all we can do at this point.”

“The stage is set,” Saia said. “Now is the perfect time for you to approach Candlewick Lake

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