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".... "The ultimate dirty bomb is a nuclear power reactor," says NCI's Leventhal. That someone will run a jet into a cooling tower isn't the only risk. Periodically the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has staged mock attacks against facilities, and the faux intruders won half the time--meaning they were in a position to cause severe damage. It's a target-rich environment: not only is the core vulnerable, but one NRC study also concluded that if terrorists blew up the cooling pool that holds the spent fuel, the radiation could kill 6% of the people living within 10 miles of the plant...."

AH HAH - Knew I'd find this group's agenda in there.

Pure BS - There is no way this can happen ("Kill all within ..." by blowing up the storage pool ... )

Among other minor "problems" is the simple thing that these pools can't be "blown up" they are open top pools (within the buildings - so little would get dispursed if an explosion happens - and an explostion in an open pool creates a big spalsh - A problem, to be sure, but NOT a 10 mile radius of "death"....not 6%, not 1%, not any. At most, you'd get a few hundred feet of "wet" dirt and asphalt and concrete blocks - IF the building itself were blown completely up! And if the explosion destroyed the building, then the

The pool, being low and submerged already - simply doesn't go anywhere, and IF leaks happens - the (mildly radiactive) cooling water either seeps slowly into the ground, or the water doesn't leak at all. If leaking, it's a simple matter of refilling the pool - with fire trucks if need be. With on-site water from any of several emergency and backup sources. Refills and water provcessing goes on routinely.

This is a POLITICAL AGENDA from a group of enviro - activists who don't know what they're talking about..... other than trying to shutdown all power plants with fear tactics.