**Breaking*** Document found in Afghanistan confirms airline attack on nuclear power plant

CNN Breaking news ^ | 31 JAN 02 | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

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[Endeavor]

Yeah, I've heard of it.

[sweetliberty]

" there were some White Supremicist nuts who cheered on the events of 9/11 and have basically the same aims as fanatical Muslims do where Jews and Israel are concerned"

I don't know. I have more of a mental picture of some Arab dudes plying some street druggies with a fix, getting them completely out of it and then promising them another when "the job is done."

[BJungNan]

You may be thinking of what it would take to destroy the massive containment domes of the nuclear reactors. You are correct that they are very strong. However, many tons of used fuel are outside the containment domes, in pools or in dry storage. Those may be covered with nothing more than a tin roof and are not secure against rocket attack, much less the force of a loaded jetliner.

And why is it stored on site...?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

What I want to know is what could possibly motivate non-Arabs to take part in something like this?

Perhaps if these non-Arabs are Moslems this would explain it. The largest Islamic countries in the world are not Arab (Pakistan and Indonesia for two).

[demnomo]

Either way, I still have the unfortunate feeling that something big may be in the works. If something big or little does occur, the idiots who pulled it off will be in bigger trouble than they were after 9/11. The terrorist jerks (and anyone who cheers them on) still don't get it. America is no longer a wimp and won't be blackmailed or sit still when our interests, lands and people are threatened...

[michigander]

This has to do with this year or last year?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Just like the "credible" threat that bridges were going to get hit. Nothing to see here.

[anniegetyourgun]

You mean folk like John Walker?

[It'salmosttolate]

He predicted this stuf last year. When it was to occur beats me.

[B4Ranch]

They need to start strip searching small children if they ever expect to make America safe. Arabs should be allowed to walk around all security measures because the Muslims have shown us they are all honorable people.

Profiling is a disgusting demeaning practice that would only be suggest and practiced by Christians. /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm /sarcasm!!

[ignatz_q]

Would a hit on a waste pool cause anywhere near the same results as a hit which caused a core meldown?

Probably not, but it would still be substantial, especially factoring long-term fatalities from radiation, cancers, and birth defects. The findamental issue is that the waste pool is a much easier target to go after.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

TERROR HAS ALREADY STRICKEN via CNN and FreeRepublic

You would prefer that we sit around fat and happy, without going on a heightened alert? You have a particular reason for making it easy for the terrorists to take out a few million Americans? One would think that the crowd that scoffs at the danger would have been convinced by September 11th, but I guess we'll have to wait until they lose a friend or relative.

[sweetliberty]

"You mean folk like John Walker?"

Well, to tell you the truth that thought did cross my mind, but he is an exception.....isn't he??

[Ronin]

I imagine on old FED-EX trash hauler would do the trick.

[anniegetyourgun]

Let us pray he is the one and ONLY!

[Lady GOP]

thanks for the article

[ex-Texan]

Excuse me for butting in .... But they might also pack a small plane with Semtex which ought to be one huge blast.

[It'salmosttolate]

"You would prefer that we sit around fat and happy,..."

I said nothing of the sort. Don't read into things and then accuse others of your own creation.

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[pa_dweller]

Thanks, that took a little worry off.

[chimera]

This is a load of CRAP. Don't expect to get the truth from the propaganda ministry. During the TMI release the lamestream media asked "How much radiation are people near the plant being exposed to?" and the comforting answer was "It's equivalent to a chest x-ray." What they didn't tell you was that there's a big difference between the instantaneous dose rate and total accumulated dose. Hanging around TMI was like climbing into an x-ray booth, turning it on, and sitting there for a week with the machine running. No thanks..

And you're full of that CRAP. You are displaying your ignorance both of the biological effects of ionizing radiation and reading comprehension. The dose estimates were total, accumulated dose for a hypothetical worst-case exposure. You simply integrate the time-dependent dose rate over exposure time to get a total dose. Since it is well-known that the TMI exposures occurred over a relatively short period, it is not invalid to use that to estimate effects from an acute dose. Non-harmful changes in biological functions such as white cell production become statistically significant at between 5 and 10 rems of whole-body exposure. The maximum hypothetical dose at the TMI plant boundary were in the tens of millirem range. Orders of magnitude below observable effects.

Now, use that same exposure to estimate latent effects. Long-term exposure studies indicate that a dose in the range of 10 to 100 millirems results in about one excess cancer death in an exposed population of a million. Now, of that same cohort group, the expected fatal cancer rate is in the range of 160,000 from non-radiation effects. Put another way, a single individual receiving an accumulated exposure in the 100 millirem range increases their fatal cancer risk by about one in one million. The best estimates of average exposure in the TMI cohort group is in the one to 10 millirem range. Adding that into the accumulated total exposure over the average liftetime of a resident of that area, adds about 0.14% to the accumulated total, using the natural background exposure in that area of the country, and excluding medical exposures, which, depending on the individual, can greatly exceed the natural expoures, and dwarf anything a person might get from the accident. So, bottom line, the total added exposure was very, very small, with correspondingly small biological effects.