"J. Clarke" wrote in
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dpb wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
dpb wrote:
wrote:
nuke plants have that little problem with waste hazardous for a
million years, and make excellent terrorists targets.
That has yet to be demonstrated...
Uh, while I don't agree that they are particularly excellent
terrorist targets, the lack of demonstration is hardly reassuring.
That they aren't is pretty much self-evident to anyone who knows
anything about them...there are far easier and more likely to be
useful targets as has been amply demonstrated already.
the used fuel pools are in unhardened steel buildings, a
airliner,
or
small plane into one of those buildings would make thousands of
miles
of land unihabitabe.
...
And how, precisely, do you think this magical event is going to
happen?
We've had this discussion before and your vision of some nuclear
explosion is simply not physically realizable.
He'd not talking about a nuclear explosion, he's talking about
flying
something explosive into the waste retention area, thus scattering
high level waste over a wide area.
I don't think he can make a credible scenario out of that, either...
Terrorists buy/rent/borrow/steal, say, a Cessna Caravan, load it up
with a ton and a half of Semtex, and fly it into the building.
will that plane carry 3000 lbs?
will the entire load of Semtex detonate? That's not such an easy task.
and explosions vent UPwards. The heavy fuel rods will be under water.
I doubt they would be scattered much,if at all.
and where does one FIND Semtex,a Czech explosive,in the US?
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