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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: Susan G who wrote (7373)10/16/2001 7:59:00 AM
From: Ken Robbins  Read Replies (2) of 27666
 
Airliner crashing into a nuclear plant: It is very doubtful that an airliner impact would result in radioactive release. Nuclear reactors are protective by massive containment structures, although not specifically designed to resist such an impact, would probably protect the core just because it is massive and hard relative to an airliner. Refer to the reactor building cross section at the following site:

nei.org

Even it the impact were to penetrate the outer and inner reinforced concrete shields, which I doubt it would, the 8" thick steel reactor vessel would most surely protect the core.

That being said, the plant could be shut down a very long time.
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