The FBI is investigating a possible threat against the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station near Oak Harbor, NewsChannel5 partner ONN reported.
Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton said he called the bureau to report the threat on Monday. Bratton said a waitress in a Port Clinton restaurant overheard two men talking about the nuclear power plant on Sunday. She told police one of the men wrote “boom” on a napkin.
Bratton said the waitress told police the men were “Arab-looking.”
Patrols have been increased at the plant, but a spokeswoman for FirstEnergy, the owner of the plant, said local authorities don’t think the threat is credible.
The FBI continues to investigate.
According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Davis-Besse is a pressurized water reactor made by Babcock and Wilcox with a generating capacity of 882 megawatts of electricity. The commission issued an operating license for the plant on April 22, 1977, which expires in 2017.
The plant has had its share of problems, including an acid leak that almost ate a hole in the nuclear reactor’s head, the station report. The plant was shut down in 2002 for more than a year.
The plant is named for former Toledo Edison Chairman John Davis and former Cleveland Electric Illuminating Chairman Ralph Besse.
Credibility depends on the credibility of the waitress in this event.
If the person making the report is credible, then the report must be taken seriously.
Anyone in business or law enforcement who dismisses a report of this type offhand, without a thorough examination, is a fool simply collecting a paycheck.
The waitress is undoubtedly a local resident; if she is normally solid and reliable then her report should be considered reliable.
Of course, there may be a disinformation factor; authorities taking it seriously but playing it down publicly to not unduly alarm the perps. I'd just pull the additional patrols off, and replace them with snipers positioned strategically with NVS sights. Of course, I was never accused of being gentle. Or whatever.
If the threat's genuine,why would terrorists write anything on a napkin,especially a dumb word like that;and why would they write it in English and in our script instead of ,say,Arabic or Persian script:unless of course they were North American born?Looks like a wind up to me.
"Boom" seems more to do with safety issues judging by the above info! 😆