RE: Terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities

["Dukelow, James S Jr" <jim.dukelow@PNL.GOV>]

The ability of containment to survive the impact of a fully-fueled large jet

liner has been one of the nuclear plant design criteria for many years.  I

suspect there are no operating nuclear plants in the U.S. and most other

countries that are not designed to survive such an impact and safely shut down.



Best regards.



Jim Dukelow

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Richland, WA

jim.dukelow@pnl.gov



These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my

management or by the U.S. Department of Energy.



-----Original Message-----

From: Jack Earley [mailto:jearley@enercon.com]

Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:59 AM

To: keith.millington@TFT.CSIRO.AU; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities





As I recall, since TMI is near the Harrisburg International Airport, its

containment was designed to withstand the impact of a 737 at 600 mph. I

suppose any future plants should now take that design feature into account.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer



Enercon Services, Inc.

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OKC, OK  73116

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----- Original Message -----

From: <keith.millington@TFT.CSIRO.AU>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: September 11, 2001 8:12 p.m.

Subject: Terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities





> During my time working on nuclear safeguards in the UK nuclear power

> industry, the "unthinkable" was a suicide terrorist attack on an operating

> nuclear power or reprocessing installation using a highjacked commercial

> aircraft. It now appears that those ruthless fanatics who sanction such

> wanton, indiscriminate acts now have the capability to plan and carry out

> such an attack.

> This is indeed a very sad day for the world, since only intense, draconian

> security measures can possibly reduce the risk of this happening, and even

> then one cannot do this with 100% certainty.

>

> The civilised nations of the world clearly need to rethink their approach

to

> terrorism and its perpetrators. Instead of wasting billions on a missile

> defense system against so-called 'rogue states', these vast US funds could

> be far more usefully spent on measures to counteract and eliminate the

few,

> high-profile, identified and active proponents of global terrorism and

their

> organisations, for the benefit of humanity, and improving intelligence and

> security measures against such groups. If this involves infiltrating these

> groups to obtain substantive evidence of their terrorist activities, then

> hunting down and eliminating certain individuals and their disciples

> currently avoiding justice in remote parts of the globe, then so be it. A

> concerted world approach would be required for this, to avoid any

> accusations of  state-sponsored elimination of legitimate peaceful

political

> protesters or opposition groups, as distinct from organisations clearly

> involved in acts of terrorism. Difficult yes, but surely not impossible.

>

> Keith Millington

>

>

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