[Carry_Okie]

It's not the containment building that they will likely hit, but the waste storage area.

You can thank the environmental lawyers for holding up construction at Yucca Mountain.

So when do the AA batteries go in?

[philo]

It's the called the "Spent Fuel Pool".

It's exactly what it is, the old radiated rods that have been "cycled out" and are left there because their is no place for their disposal.

They're not a threat if they are kept in water. These pools usually have no protection what so ever.

In fact the H.B. Robinson Reactor in SC is just basically a tin roof structure that's removable.

In most reactors in wouldn't take a big plane to create massive damage.