> > > > The World Trade Centre was also built to withstand the impact of a > > commercial airliner. > > Which it did. The problem wasn't the impact of the aircraft - it was > the prolongued heat from the fires caused by the large load of fuel. >
Precisely. They never planned for that when they designed it. All sorts of things can happen which people, even the clever people who design nuclear reactors, cannot plan for. So to claim that they are safe just because they can withstand the impact of an aircraft is hubristic, and sounds very much like the claim that Titanic was unsinkable. Regards Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
