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Originally Posted by ikalugin
Nuclear power plants are protected against hits by air liners I believe. Hence an external terrorist attack would be difficult to pull off.
What they could try to do is to gain control over the power plant and go through the procedure of shutting down the fail safes and then initiating the melt down. This would require however intricate knowledge of the powerplant desighn (in order to turn off the fail safes and initiate melt down) as well as both time (going though the procedure would require it) and firepower (to secure the powerplant).
This makes nuclear terrorism very difficult to pull off. It would be much easier to conduct an attack on some form of chemical industry - chlorine gas kills just the same as it did during the WW1.
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After reading the following story a few weeks ago, I'm starting to think that a group of determined men probably could do it. All it takes is for someone to find a weakness and the discipline to exploit it.
http://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-l...ipe-files-suit