[cajungirl]

I always thought Camp David was nonsense. My guess, the capitol or the WH but 3mile sounds reasonable. I remember the last emergency with that one, it was terrible.

[chimera]

I always thought Camp David was nonsense. My guess, the capitol or the WH but 3mile sounds reasonable. I remember the last emergency with that one, it was terrible.

Terrible in the sense of needless hysteria and panic incited by the media and their Luddite friends. Terrible because of the financial loss and bad publicity for a perfectly benign technology.

As far as deaths and injuries to the public or the on-site workforce, the 1979 accident was a non-event. We'd count ourselves lucky if all "emergencies" had these kinds of non-existent consequences.

[Gorest Gump]

I remember the last emergency with that one, it was terrible.

No it wasn't. The media and public hysteria was terrible. Not a single death or illness can be traced to 3 mile island. Not one.

[ninenot]

Let them waste airliners on nukes. Worst scenario is that they shut down the electricity coming out of the facility--the nukes are built to withstand a 727, not 747--but it's almost the same diff, insofar as IF you bust through the outer dome, you still have another INNER dome, same composition (12" of concrete, rebarred to beat hell.) There'd be a lot of water spraying around, steam, grinding metal--and no electricity for about 20 weeks. BTW, trying to get in by car or on foot will be absolutely LETHAL---there's LOTS of defenses at nukes, and full-auto assault rifles are only the lightweight stuff..