RE: Terrorist and nuclear plants - and office buildings

One thing I noticed after hearing predictions of thousands of deaths following a WTC-type attack against a NPP, by people like NCI's Leventhal, is that none of them has suggested that high-rise office building construction standards adopt those used for the construction of reactor containment domes. Now THAT would be something positive, that could actually save thousands of lives. True, it would be horrendously expensive to build them like that, but since when are these people concerned about costs ? ....indeed, it is their objective to raise the costs of building nukes & make their economics as unattractive as possible to potential investors. How about spending money where it will actually do some good ??

Its interesting also, that the new PBMR gas turbine reactor design eyed for likely near-term future construction, has been criticized for not having a containment dome -- when in fact it is only the pressure-retaining function that is absent from the design (since its not needed) -- while the protection against external missile threats remains.