RE: Nuclear Regulators: Attack Risk Low

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

We appear to have nearly reached the point where no one needs to attack

us--we as a country can cause ourselves more harm. If an NPP were attacked,

the resulting lack of harm would just be passed off as "fortunate" because

it "could have been worse if...," and "we'd better shut them all down

before...." And although the terrorist manual lists NPPs as potential

targets, no one has actually threatened to attack them; our infrastructure

is only being terrorized by the anti-nuc industry.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





-----Original Message-----

From: Ted Rockwell [mailto:tedrock@CPCUG.ORG]

Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:15 PM

To: RADSAFE; Sandy Perle

Subject: RE: Nuclear Regulators: Attack Risk Low





This NRC statement, coupled with other unchallenged news statements by

others, strongly implies that an airplane hitting a nuclear power plant will

result in "tens of thousands of deaths" and "vast areas of land rendered

uninhabitable for centuries."  Also, "The agency also again acknowledged

that the plants were not built to withstand a fully fueled jetliner crashing

into them." (Gee, what was all that calculation and testing in the 1977s-80s

all about, anyway?)



Our only hope, they say, is to shoot the attackers down before they get us.

If I believed what I read here, I would want to shut down every nuclear

power plant now, for keeps.



Can anyone show me an authoritative statement by a government official or a

nuclear spokesman that would counteract that conclusion?



The more we talk about shooting down planes and beefing up walls, the more

essential it appears that we must never have a reactor or fuel accident.  I

have to infer from all this that any of these attacks, if successful, would

have consequences too horrible to discuss.  Else why do we not discuss them?



I wish someone would show me why I'm wrong about this.



Ted Rockwell





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