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At least some nuclear power plants where designed to withstand a plane crash. E.g. the one in Doel (Belgium) [1] (dutch link). [1] http://fanc.fgov.be/GED/0000

• acqq 10y ago
  WTC Twin Towers were also "built to withstand a plane crash." But obviously not those planes that have hit them: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1340225/Twin-towers-built-to-withstand-plane-crash.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1340225/Twin-towers-built-to... And the initial design was 30 floors less. The Fukushima plant had a wall to protect it from tsunami and the motors to keep the pumps working when there the electricity fails. The whole design however didn't cover that particular wave: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388629/Japan-tsunami-destroyed-wall-designed-protect-Fukushima-nuclear-plant.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388629/Japan-tsunam... The tsunamis like that happened there "only once in a thousand years" so nobody (who made the executive decisions) expected that one. Still there were the stone markers in Japan, many hundreds of years old, with the marking "Do not build your homes below this point!" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html "As time passes, people inevitably forget."