On 02/06/13 09:30, Farmer Giles wrote:
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."

yadda yadda.

Id be far more concerned about it hitting a spent fuel pond actually.
But even there, the loss of life would be from the plane crash, not the
radioactive releases.

I'd be MOST concerned about a plane crashing into a chemical plant, or a
refinery. There you really COULD see widescale loss of life.

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