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Electric utility substations require continual protection from economic, human and legal liability risk, but these often isolated stations have unique security needs.

For FY 2013, the NNSA will lose 85 percent of its budget, and the megaport project -- set to scan shipping containers bound for the U.S. -- will be placed on hold.

The BioSwimmer robotic fish is designed to perform remotely controlled underwater surveillance and patrols.

Security has been beefed up at the San Onofre nuclear power plant after it was discovered that a generator there might have been tampered with.

If terrorists or other extremist groups attacked an electrical substation, thousands could be without power for months, possibly resulting in hundreds or thousands of deaths in the event of extreme weather.

In an effort to improve the cyber security of electrical substations, a $24,000 donation and $210,000 in hardware and software was awarded to engineer Chee-Wooi Ten.

New rules will add restrictions for the use, storage and domestic transport of nuclear materials that terrorists could potentially use to build a dirty bomb.

 A ring, which included former Duke Energy employees, made nearly a half-million dollars from selling copper wiring stolen from the utility.

A security test was being widely circulated among security officers at the Y-12 Nuclear Facility in Tennessee, where it was used as a study aid instead of a secret exam.