| Russia deployed extra troops to guard dozens of nuclear facilities across the country on Wednesday after militants seized a school in the south and a suicide bomb attack in Moscow, the nuclear authority said. Russia, the world's No.2 atomic power after the United States, has come under international pressure to do more to protect its Soviet-era nuclear facilities against attack. "After the latest terrorist attacks security services decided to send more interior ministry troops to all nuclear sites across the country," a Russian Atomic Energy Agency spokesman said. He would not say how many additional troops were sent. Russia runs dozens of atomic reactors, uranium enrichment facilities and nuclear research reactors — some in the far-flung corners of Siberia and which are poorly guarded. Reactors are also attractive to militants because atomic fuel stored at many sites can be used in nuclear bombs. |