"North" wrote in message
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No matter how 'safe' you make something, there's aways the chance
of a 'what if' or '**** happens'. For example, what if some
terrorist somehow snuck into the core of a reactor wearing a
backpack nuke?


You've obviously never been in the military, because you think like a
civilian (who's watched too much Hollywood drivel).

Try to think about your absurd scenario for just one moment. A terrorist has
obtained a very high-value man-portable nuclear bomb (which, by the way, are
very large and quite noticeable: think large fully-stuffed backpacking pack,
not a child's schoolbook backpack). With this device, he could easily
destroy several square blocks of a metropolitan city, or perhaps take out
the U.S. Capitol building (with Congress in session). But, no. Instead he
tries to walk, with his large backpack unnoticed mind you, into a
tightly-controlled, high-security area like a nuclear power plant. Yeah,
that's a great plan! And even if he did manage to successfully penetrate
security and detonate the device, the overall effect would not be much worse
than if he had blown the thing up anywhere else.

Too bad terrorists in real life are not as stupid as Hollywood--or you--make
them out to be.