March 3, 2002

Forum topic: Sabotage risk at Seabrook power plant

Sunday News Staff

EXETER -- Veteran anti-nuclear activists will join state and industry representatives on the panel of speakers at a forum Thursday on the threat that sabotage poses to Seabrook Station and other nuclear power plants.

The forum, titled "Nuclear Power and the Threat of Terrorism," is open to the public. It will begin at 7 p.m. in Academy Hall at Phillips Exeter Academy.

The event was organized by the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, a Portsmouth-based organization that has for more than 30 years monitored the environmental and economic effects of the nuclear power plant in Seabrook.

Jennifer Hicks, SAPL's field director, said the confirmed panelists include Donald Bliss, the state fire marshal and acting director of the state Office of Emergency Management, and Alan Griffith, Seabrook Station spokesman.

Also scheduled to participate are Sandy Gavutis of the Newburyport, Mass. -based C-10 Research and Education Foundation and two men who have long been foes of nuclear power: Manchester attorney Bob Backus, who is SAPL's legal counsel, and Paul Gunter, formerly of New Hampshire and now with the Nuclear Information Resource Service in Washington, D.C.