Hysteria
Friday, January 13th, 2006
Found on the register, this is rather alarmingly hysterical advert from greenpeace about the danger of a terrorist attack on the growing number of nuclear power plants being constructed in the world. Now while i concur that if a boeing 747 was indeed crashed directly into a plant odds are it would probably cause quite a bit of damage. But just how much? The reactor wouldnt go critical as the whole system is inherantly safe in modern (post Chinobol) reactors, there’d probably be radioactive dust and so forth, but i cant help feeling that if a plane was hijacked these days it would be shot down way before it got close to a











