Re: Can Nuclear Power Deliver?


Richard Bell wrote:


>
> The big thing about terrorists attacking a nuclear plant with a nuclear bomb
> is that it does not actually generate a large bodycount. It is a severe
> inconvenience to have to relocate, but radioactive contamination, by itself
> does not kill in job lots, nor does it kill quickly.
>
I guess you might have something a few times worse than Chernobyl, in a
remote area. this might lead to several hundred deaths - perhaps
something as bad as 9/11, and a hundred square kilometres needing major
decontaminaiton.

If terrorists had a nuclear bomb, central London, New York, or Paris
would be a more deadly place to blow it than Sizewell or Dungeness.
(Unless you live in Ipswich or Rye).

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