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Three Mile Island  (Source: Ohio Citizen)










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RE: Sigh @ Anti-Nuke Crowd
By wakjob on 11/26/2009 4:06:39 PM , Rating: 2
Impossible? What if a saboteur and the plant turns off the saftey systems like they did at Chernobyl? What about if we have a war and someone bombs the plant? Impossible? I don't think so.

RE: Sigh @ Anti-Nuke Crowd
By Fallen Kell on 12/1/2009 12:48:09 PM , Rating: 2
In the new plant designs, yes, impossible. There is simply not enough material in the new designs for them to reach critical mass (note those words critical mass, as there is a hard limit in terms of mass of material that is needed for a reaction to go on its own, which is why that value is called "critical mass"). You would have to take over multiple plants, shutdown the reaction currently going on, wait several weeks for the reactor to cool enough for humans to go in and handle the reactor material, remove part of the reactor, then take over another plant, and introduce the material into that reactor.... Pretty darn far fetched if you ask me that a group would be able to take over and hold a plant for a day, let alone weeks. If you don't already know, all plants have defences built in already and do drills and response scenarios with law enforcement and the military in event of an attack on the plant. A terrorist group has a better chance getting nuclear material from a hospital to make a "dirty bomb" then they do from a nuclear plant...

