Nuclear plant on lockdownFollow

PHOENIX - Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small suspicious device in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said.

The worker was stopped and detained at the entrance of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, said U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Victor Dricks. Security officials then put the nuclear station on lockdown, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving the facility.

They say the device was "rendered safe" but never say what it was...

Authorities described the device as a small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue.

Well teh video that goes with the article said that the initial security report said the device was a "viable" explosive. Of course it's fear mongering, or it wouldn't be "news". Doesn't mean it's not interesting.