Comment on Norway is building thorium reactorparentComments−moe13ywould be a 100 km meteorite smashing the plant to atomsOr an airplane...−tarre13yAt least in European Union new nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a collision of any currently used commercial airplane.−moe13yThat's nice. Except these facilities tend to last 50+ years, and planes keep getting bigger...http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/vulnerable-to-pl...−tarre13yNone of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001. Before that hardly anyone cared about planes, when designing nuclear power plant.−moe13yNone of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001.Yes. I guess we'll be fine if we just kindly ask those terrorists to not crash their planes into an older plant.−tarre13yWe agree on older plants being not as safe as new ones. My original sentence was about things you just can't prepare for (with any reasonable means). After that I just wanted to say, that it is possible to build plane-safe NPP.
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would be a 100 km meteorite smashing the plant to atoms
Or an airplane...
At least in European Union new nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a collision of any currently used commercial airplane.
That's nice. Except these facilities tend to last 50+ years, and planes keep getting bigger...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/vulnerable-to-pl...
None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001. Before that hardly anyone cared about planes, when designing nuclear power plant.
None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001.
Yes. I guess we'll be fine if we just kindly ask those terrorists to not crash their planes into an older plant.
We agree on older plants being not as safe as new ones. My original sentence was about things you just can't prepare for (with any reasonable means). After that I just wanted to say, that it is possible to build plane-safe NPP.