Re: Reactor Containments and Terrorist Attacks

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@HOME.COM>]

In the newspaper articles that followed 9/11 taht focused on the vulnerablity of

nuclear plants, Dave Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists made just

that point - that the fuel pools and dry cask storage were the most vulnerable

parts of a nuclear plant for terrorist attacks.



Norm



"Miller, Mark L" wrote:



> Has anyone thought of the much more vulnerable spent fuel pools and onsite

> storage of spent fuel rods (ISFSI)?  It seems to me that these locations are

> MUCH more vulnerable to disruption and dispersal than the fuel in the

> reactor itself.

>

> Mark L. Miller, Certified Health Physicist

>

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