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Fear of radiation worse than radiation...
On 02/06/2013 09:18, wrote:
On Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:25:00 PM UTC+1, Farmer Giles wrote:
I don't wish to be offensive, but it is my firm belief that only madmen
could possibly risk such a nightmare scenario.
We live with a long list of nightmare scenarios daily. The job of engineers is to shrink the risks to near zero. In the case of an airplane attack it wasnt hard to do. You can go back to sleep.
More dangerous complacency. 'There are lies, damned lies' - then there
are the assurances of the nuclear lobby.
'The risk that planes will crash into nuclear plants and release
potentially lethal clouds of radioactivity is significantly higher than
official estimates, according to expert evidence to a public inquiry.
Studies submitted to the inquiry to expand Lydd airport in Kent , which
began last week, cast doubt on assurances from the government's Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) that the dangers of accidental plane crashes
are too small to worry about.
An analysis by an independent expert concludes that the method used by
the HSE to calculate the likelihood of crashes is "flawed" and could
underestimate the risk by 20%. And a previously secret report for the
HSE accepts that a crash could trigger a "significant radiological
release".'
"VIENNA - A reactor meltdown could occur within one hour if a commercial
passenger jet hits a nuclear power plant, according to a new Greenpeace
report which examines the vulnerability of nuclear power plants to plane
crashes in Germany.
Nuclear expert, Dr Helmut Hirsch, says in the report that in a worse
case scenario of a commercial passenger jet hitting a nuclear plant, the
reactor's containment would be breached, the cooling systems would fail,
and within a very short period of time less than one hour - the reactor
core would begin to meltdown. A catastrophic release of radioactivity on
the scale of Chernobyl would follow. Dr Hirsch's report was released as
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General, Dr Mohamed
El Baradei, acknowledged that the world's nuclear reactors and other
facilities are vulnerable to a September 11th type attack."
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