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Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the 2005 London transit bombings, officials said.The plant’s operator, OKG, said no bomb was found and the incident did not pose a threat to the Oskarshamn generating station, which provides 10 percent of Sweden’s electricity.

TATP was used by the four suicide bombers who killed 52 subway and bus passengers in London on July 7, 2005. Richard Reid, the would-be British “shoe bomber,” tried unsuccessfully to detonate TATP on an airliner in 2001, and authorities say an alleged ring of Islamic militants planned to blow up as many as 10 London-to-U.S. flights in 2006 with TATP bombs.

In the United States, the FBI says ecoterrorists and extremist animal rights groups are believed to use similar explosives. The agency considers peroxide explosives the most likely weapon that terrorists will try to use against the U.S.

It will be interesting to see what names are released. So far nothing, but I will keep an eye on it.

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