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Man with explosive held at nuclear plant
Police said yesterday they were interrogating a man who had entered a nuclear plant on Sweden's southeast coast carrying highly explosive material.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:08 May 22, 2008
Stockholm: Police said yesterday they were interrogating a man who had entered a nuclear plant on Sweden's southeast coast carrying highly explosive material.
Sven-Erik Karlsson, spokesman for Kalmar County Police, said police received a call from the Oskarshamn plant at 7.58am.
"They told us a welder who was going to perform a job there had been stopped in a random security check. He had been carrying small amounts of the highly explosive material TATP," Karlsson said.
TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, is extremely unstable, especially when subjected to heat, friction and shock.
It has been employed by suicide bombers in Israel and by Richard Reid, the thwarted British "shoebomber" who attempted to blow up a transatlantic airliner in 2001.
"The man has been brought to Kalmar for interrogation," the police spokesman said.
Oskarshamn is jointly owned by Germany's E.ON and Finland's Fortum.
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