Jim Yanik wrote:
"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?
It will carry 4,000 plus a pilot and fuel for 100 miles or so with a
45 minute reserve.
will the entire load of Semtex detonate? That's not such an easy
task.
I'm sure that the instructors at the Al Quaeda Terrorist Academy are
up to the task of teaching their people how to do that.
and explosions vent UPwards. The heavy fuel rods will be under
water.
I doubt they would be scattered much,if at all.
So how many lives are you willing to stake on that doubt?
and where does one FIND Semtex,a Czech explosive,in the US?
Geez, do you have Asperger's syndrome or some such? For "Semtex"
substitute any other suitable explosive--I'm sure that the Al Quaeda
Terrorist Academy provides its graduates with a long list of suitable
materials plus the knowledge to improvise if needed.
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