In article , "JB" writes:



And what if Al Quada (sp) drop an airliner on a nuclear plant? That
would
make 9/11 look like a minor mishap.

WHy? You think a few tons of jet fuel will make the reactor go critical?
Wow , maybe someone should have told those guys developing the first
nuclear
bombs so they could have saved themselves 5 years research. They could
have
just chucked some petrol over a lump of uranium and lit it! Aside from
that
the reactor vessels and built bloody strong.


Not only that but Nuclear reactors (in the West anyway) have always been
constructed so as to withstand an "airliner drop" on them.


Hopefully they have been more thorough than the designers of the twin
towers that were also supposed to withstand an airliner IIRC. The heat
of the fuel fire weakened the steelwork leading to their collapse
despite withstanding the initial impact as designed. A similar
problem may occur with Nuclear reactors.

David

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