I believe the old AEC made that stipulation for all of them. In fact the shape indicates it is stressed for a nuclear hit. TMI was an excellent example of management greed and ignorance. All Westinghouse and Combustion Reactor facilities are designed to contain an internal explosion even though such is unlikely. Usually you get a melt down such as TMI or Chernobyl, The only explosion I know of was small military reactor named SR1 it was very messy. The real bad situation is naval reactors other than the hull of the vessel there is no containment and even a meltdown will put millions of gallons of very radioactive steam clouds into the atmosphere many deaths would result from breathing such an atmosphere. As one might expect those clouds will circle the earth many times before they totally dissipate.
The new NRC has much more stringent standards than the old AEC they have much more data and hands on experience to base their standards on. Hope this info lets you sleep better. From someone who has been there. ========Original Message======== Subj: RE: [biofuel] are nuclear plants really resistant to attacks? Date: 9/14/2001 4:20:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kirk) Reply-to: biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com It is my understanding that 3 mile Island is one of the very few that will withstand a jetliner. This was the result of a legal action brought by an activist in the area. The suit was based on the fact the powerplant was in a flight path. I was told that is why 3 Mile Island didn't rupture during its failure-- as the standard building would have under the same conditions. This information was given me by Doctor Romanowski (PhD) Berkeley. Kirk -----Original Message----- From: Mati Kokk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:07 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] are nuclear plants really resistant to attacks? Hello, Last summer we were talking about nuclear energy in this BIOFUELS newsgroup. Somebody told that (most or all?) nuclear powerplants have been designed so that they are able to withstand fighter aircraft which falls onto the dome of the powerplant. But can the domes withstand to a falling full-loaded passenger plane? Or to a falling helicopter with 5 tons of explosives onboard? If some nuclear plants are really resistant to such attacks, can we say the same about all plants? Mati Kokk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.276 / Virus Database: 145 - Release Date: 9/3/2001 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.37]) by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v80.17) with ESMTP id MAILINYC42-0914042040; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:20:40 -0400 Received: from n24.groups.yahoo.com (n24.groups.yahoo.com [216.115.96.74]) by rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v80.21) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYC51-0914042008; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:20:08 -0400 X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [10.1.4.53] by ef.egroups.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2001 07:41:15 -0000 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 14 Sep 2001 07:41:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 16930 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2001 07:37:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Sep 2001 07:37:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.montanavision.net) (216.220.30.7) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 07:37:46 -0000 Received: from meincxgyhogrph (conrad3-75.3rivers.net [216.220.24.75]) by hermes.montanavision.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA16907 for <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:09:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list biofuel@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list biofuel@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:14:13 -0600 Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] are nuclear plants really resistant to attacks? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/MDsVHB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
