Chapter 12The NRC's security requirements for nuclear power plants were among the strictest of all federal regulations. If anyone knew this well, Drake Fischer did, standing there patiently outside the heavily armored door to Control Station Two. In the eight short months Drake had worked at the power plant, he had digested two thousand pages of security procedures, including Title Ten of the Federal Energy Code and the subsequently developed ten-volume set of security and contingency-plan procedures for Mal Loma. He, of all the officers of the midnight shift, had truly taken the assigned reading to heart, and likewise, amassed the most comprehensive knowledge of the security system, maybe even more so than his supervisor, and the administrators. Even now, with his eyes fixed on the solid
