It's only a matter of time until they are used that way.

Ukraine's security service warned they had threats against their reactors,
and the 911 hijackers considered attacking US reactors.

"World’s first nuclear civil war may begin in Ukraine – SBU statement"
http://www.nucpros.com/content/world%E2%80%99s-first-nuclear-civil-war-may-begin-ukraine-%E2%80%93-sbu-statement

"Level of security alert at Ukrainian nuclear power plants increased to the second level"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101683935

"Ukraine wants international monitors at nuclear plants"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101686799

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- Pffft, commandos! Good thing we're safe and secure -- now that Megan's locked up.....

How an 82-year-old exposed security lapses at nuclear facilities

http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/

are built would laugh at the idea of crashing a plane into them in the hope of turning the plant into a dirty bomb. One of the many requirements for their construction is the ability to withstand such an impact. Very unlikely scenario.

And Fukushima was designed to withstand earthquakes - and they did, but they melted down anyway.

The World Trade Center towers survived the plane impacts, but collapsed because the jet fuel made the support structures melty enough that they failed.

And the Fukushima reactors survived the earthquake, but melted down because the cooling system failed. (The cooling system actually broke during the earthquake, before the tidal wave hit, so the multiple meltdowns may have occurred even if the generators were above tidal wave height, and even if the tidal wave never hit).

And Fukushima reactor 4 had known defects in its pressure vessel, if it wasn't down for refueling it likely would have popped like popcorn kernel, which means they probably wouldn't have gotten cooling to the other reactors and they would also have popped like popcorn kernels.

Anyone being familiar with how containment buildings are built would laugh at the idea they can't be turned into dirty bombs. One of the many requirements they cheat on is being able to withstand earthquakes.

Not just a likely scenario - an inevitable scenario.

comes from....?????

The plane that did hit the World Trade Center were all much larger then a 707 and fully loaded with fuel. What was considered in the design was the towers being hit by a 707 running out of fuel and headed to an airport. A full Fuel load was NEVER brought into the calculations (and if it was, would have shown that the towers would have FAILED even with a 707 if that 707 was fully loaded with Fuel load:

A Boeing 767 carried 16,700 Gallons of Fuel (South Tower) Collapsed At 9:59 am, the South Tower collapsed, 56 minutes after being struck.

A Boeing 767-ER carried 24,140 Gallons of Fuel (North Tower) The North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am, after burning for 102 minutes.

Thus while a Boeing 707 was considered in the design, fuel load of a 707 was NOT. The planes that did hit the Towers had about the same fuel load as a fully loaded 707 and it appears that the FIRE from those planes is what did in the Towers NOT the planes themselves.

Bin Laden was an ENGINEER and thus knew what it would take to knock the trade center down. Now, bin Laden expected a more conventional collapse not the pancaking that happened, but he knew there was enough fuel in those planes to do the job. IT was the FUEL that caused the tower to pancake NOT the impact itself.

Thus the TOWERS were never designed to take a hit by a FULLY FUELED JET. An almost empty jet looking to Land as JFK Airport but not a fully loaded jet and it was the FUEL burning on three floors at once that cause the Towers to pancake.

and actually implementing it.
Hell our own government has plans for alot of stuff that it will never implement.

How did this obviously classified report, if there is on, fall into their hands?

Comparing extortion of a movie company to this is ridiculous.

those plants will sooner or later self-destruct, turning popular anger in the US onto the authorities without any outside agency having to lose a single brave volunteer...

After Fermi 1, 3 Mile Island, the contamination due to everything from the Manhattan Project to the open-air testing to the weapons production plants polluting Washington, Colorado, and of course, Chernobyl and Fukushima, I know NOTHING.

Considering how you list Fermi 1 and Three Mile Island together with Chernobyl and Fukushima as if they're anywhere near the same thing.

First of all weapon production has nothing to do with commercial nuclear power. Second, nothing you listed regarding said nuclear power has anything to do with poor maintenance as you claimed in your first post. Fermi I was a material failure, Fukushima was because of awful generator placement, and the other two were operator errors.

North Korea Planned Attacks on US Solar Energy Facility.

The Archives of Fear to dig up some skeletons to shake in front of the folks?

The American media is part of the problem, none of the solution of this epidemic of faux fear.

NK says bad things, makes threats

President Obama made it easier to get these reports. Under Bush we had to wait many years or you'd never even get requested information.

If they said the sky was blue, I'd go outside and check.

One of the reason for such design was the US and the Soviet Union had bombing policies of destroying electrical generation capacity as one of the first thing one destroy. When it come to Nuclear reactors, destruction of the actual Nuclear plant within the dome was NOT needed, just blow away the surrounding distribution system would make the plant useless.

Thus a direct hit on the Containment domes were NOT needed and it fact would require a direct hit that would end up reducing the area affected by the A-bomb. i.e. You would crack the dome, but much more of the distribution system would survive, and such distribution system was always the main target of any such bombing by an Atomic Bomb.

Thus the idea bombing of an Atomic Generation plant was high enough for the maximum blast affect on the surrounding area, even if that meant the dome would survive. Given this attitude, you did NOT have to design the domes for a direct hit, but the over pressure of an blast at 10-20,000 feet above the dome. At that height the Atomic Bomb would do the most damage to the largest area, making the atomic reactor an isolated useless site that would be shut down and NOT used till the area was rebuilt.

As to the domes themselves, domes are the strongest buildings for all pressure is spread out to its base along its curve walls. The domes are also smooth, so there is nothing to catch the pressure from moving onward down the sloped wall and onto the surrounding land. Domes have been used to store high explosives for centuries do to this inherent strength. It was an easy switch to adopt them for nuclear power plants and with modern steel reinforced concrete can be made quite strong. Most were designed to take a blast from INSIDE the containment dome, but to take such a blast requires a much stronger dome then one designed to take a hit from the outside. Thus the domes were extremely strong and in many people's eyes not destroyable except by a direct hit by an atomic bomb AND that was NOT that likely given the accuracy of missiles till the 1980s.

In the 1980s it became more and more possible to hit something like a containment dome from clear across the world, but by then the question of why one would do so given that it would reduce the destruction in the area of the power plant.

Thus a nuclear containment dome can take a direct hit by a Plane for it is a dome and domes spread out the effect of any hit. Square boxes, like the World Trade Center, do NOT spread out the effect of the hit AND unlike domes, do NOT let fuel flow away form the impact cite. The World Trade Center had a center corridor with flat concrete slabs on each floor. There is some reports that the floors had a slight curve upward for it was better to err upward then downward during construction. i.e. to be safe you design each floor with one or two inches upward cant, so that when the building "Settled" each floor would still be flat as oppose to some floors with a slight tilt downward (and the impression such a tilt would do to officer workers as they see any water flowing to the windows as opposed to the Center Elevators).

Sorry, everything turns to fuel causing the Towers to collapse and the flat floors kept that fuel on each floor till it was burned OR the floor collapsed.

Domes, Circles and Triangles are stronger then Squares, but Squares are easier to design and build. Thus buildings are squares and thus weaker then Containment domes if everything else is the same.

the consequences of a plane hitting a containment unit. Hearing all the scare talk is wearisome, particularly since it is fact-free.

But geez, a scare story from the 90s now? Talk about desperate.