Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by foepys on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:25AM
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Also if a terrorist flys a plane into a coal plant they will not make hundreds of km² uninhabitable.
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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by pg314 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:06AM
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At least some nuclear power plants where designed to withstand a plane crash. E.g. the one in Doel (Belgium) [1] (dutch link).
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by acqq on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:18AM
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WTC Twin Towers were also "built to withstand a plane crash." But obviously not those planes that have hit them:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1340225/Twin-towers-built-to...
And the initial design was 30 floors less.
The Fukushima plant had a wall to protect it from tsunami and the motors to keep the pumps working when there the electricity fails. The whole design however didn't cover that particular wave:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388629/Japan-tsunam...
The tsunamis like that happened there "only once in a thousand years" so nobody (who made the executive decisions) expected that one.
Still there were the stone markers in Japan, many hundreds of years old, with the marking "Do not build your homes below this point!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html
"As time passes, people inevitably forget."