[sefarkas]

everything inside would be too contaminated

The dome is a few feet thick. The reactor vessel is over 12 inches thick high quality steel. Not much long term damage would occur with an explosion inside containment -- the containment is designed for high energy steam releases. It would be more effective to take out the steam turbine. Turbines take years to manufacture and bring to site. The plant is useless without a turbine. Run the reactor and just boil water with it, steam bypass it out, just to get fission products? The process in a low-enrichment reactor like that one makes it quite inefficient for creating Pu. Once the fuel is burned for awhile, you'd have to take it out and put it in a re-processing facility that by necessity would have to guard the operators and technicians from high concentrations of radioisotopes. It just seems a far fetched way of producing weapons grade material. The centrifuges make more sense.

[tacticalogic]

The dome is a few feet thick. The reactor vessel is over 12 inches thick high quality steel.

Isn't that what high-altitude penetrators are made for?