Re: NYTimes Article: Rising Anxiety over Indian Point NPP

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

I think one of the most inaccurate and egregious

errors in the report is the following sentence:



"the nation's 103 nuclear reactors were never designed

to withstand the impact of a commercial airliner."



How did the phrase, "Designers did not take into

account the sceanrio of a fully-loaded commercial

jetliner striking containment" ever get twisted around

to mean, "The plants cannot take the forces that would

result from an airliner collision"?



This is a shining example of how twisting just a word

or two around every other week or so can have that

effect.  Just another example of the old addage of "If

you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes true..." is

so very accurate.



Then again, nobody ever accused NY Times reporters of

reporting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but

the truth.



Tim S.



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