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FW: Terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities
Forwarded as requested by Dr. Donjoux.
--- John
-----Original Message-----
From: Yann Donjoux [mailto:Yann.Donjoux@cern.ch]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 4:37 AM
To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities
"Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" wrote:
>
> Hi,
> If you have been reading the news, it was not the impact of the jet liners
> that brought down the World Trade Towers, but the fire from the fuel
> weakening the supporting steel superstructure. Does anyone know if the
> safety analysis considered intense heat as well as the impact on the
> containment building?
As far as I remember my studies concerning nuclear facility (in France),
nuclear power plant are not designed to resist to a full fueled airplane
crashing onto a nuclear power plant. The external building housing the
heart of the power plant has been designed to resist to ONE engine
crashing onto it. Not a full fueled airplane...
PS: If my email do not reach the mailing list, could you forward it
please, I have unsubscribed for holidays...
Regards,
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| Yann Donjoux Division TIS / Radioprotection (RP) - E07900 |
| CERN, Organisation européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire |
| CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland. |
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