CORE CONCERNS

[Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

See the link at bottom for full story.



--Susan Gawarecki



CORE CONCERNS

from The Christian Science Monitor



CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – It's a sultry day on the gritty industrial fringe of

the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, and as pedestrians stroll

by,

none of them even bother to glance at a dome that looks like a city

water

tank.



It's not. But if the public mistakes a nuclear reactor for a water tank,

that's fine with John Bernard, director of the MIT Nuclear Reactor

Laboratory. Less attention is better. He knows, however, that neither he

nor federal authorities can assume a terrorist is so inattentive.



So Dr. Bernard, a beefy man with close-cropped hair, has studied a

theoretical airliner crash into the MIT containment dome, a feat that

would

require great flying skills, given that the structure is only a few

stories

tall. An engine might get through the shell, the study showed.



Bernard has also examined a hypothetical truck-bomb explosion. "The

truck-

bomb scenario is more likely, more realistic," he says. "But honestly,

with

two feet of steel-reinforced concrete, even that isn't going to bother

us."



For full story go to:

<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0716/p11s02-lehl.html>



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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

102 Robertsville Road, Suite B, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Toll free 888-770-3073 ~ www.local-oversight.org

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