Reports from Brussels stoke fears of attack

Nations’ defenses against nuclear sabotage – Switzerland tied in 6th place with the United States and Hungary in recent rankings – are in focus as the Brussels attacks raise concerns about the potential for terrorists to gain control of a nuclear power plant. Belgian and international media reported on Saturday that a security guard at a Belgian nuclear plant was shot dead two days after three coordinated bomb attacks on March 22 at the Brussels airport and metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds more. But a local prosecutor ruled out links to militants, and denied media reports that his pass was stolen. A Belgian nuclear power plant also may have been the target of an aborted plot by the Islamic State group that was responsible for the terrorist attacks in Brussels, according to Belgian news outlets. Two brothers who died in the attacks were reportedly taking secret video surveillance of a senior scientist at one of Belgium’s two nuclear power plants. The ...