On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:08:23 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote:

Do you have any idea how a containment vessel is built?
You could fly a fully fuelled a380 into it and it wouldn't penetrate it.

You'd possibly penetrate the reactor building at some UK nukes. Not a hope in
hell of getting any further. Some of the early magnox stations were
significantly more vulnerable.

The worst place you could crash it would be the turbine building, then
you might put it out of action for a few weeks while they fix the
generating plant.

A few weeks? Not a hope in hell of that, think nearer a few years. Even a
hydrogen explosion followed by an oil fire on an alternator at Drax a few years
ago put a unit out of action for over 6 months, even though there was an
immediate 100% spares capability. 50m away you could barely see much more than
a bit of discoloured paint.

P.S. The compact layout of the turbine building used at some of the AGR's was
such that construction *when new* was nigh on impossible.


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