MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will increase to 490 the staff assigned to monitor the Spanish NPPs possible jihadist attacks said Tuesday Interior Minister acting
Jorge Fernandez Diaz said at an event on nuclear safety that protection facilities Spanish nuclear, already monitor 185 agents who will join other 305 in 2017, must be consistent with the existing threat, protection systems and high level security.
“not only should be thoroughly trained to prevent, detect and delay any attempt to attack, but also to respond adequately ensuring citizens’ safety and protection, “said the minister on security plans for the Spanish nuclear power plants during his speech.
“the continuous attacks of jihadist terrorism against our stability show that the challenges for National security are of high complexity that has overstepped the traditional concepts of defense and public security,” he added.
Spain follows the trail of Belgium, which already increased in March security its nuclear plants shortly before suffering a coordinated Brussels airport and a subway station in the city that left 32 dead and was claimed by the Islamic State attack.
the Belgian media echoed then the fear of the possibility that Islamist groups would steal nuclear material or were planning to attack nuclear facilities.
Spain and was hit by jihadism in 2004, when several rucksack bombs exploded in three trains in Madrid and led to the deaths of 190 people in the deadliest Islamist attack on European soil.
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