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Wow. If you'd told in October 2001 that in seven years people would be seriously proposing putting nuclear reactors in aeroplanes I'd think you were crazy. And
by hugh 18y ago
Wow. If you'd told in October 2001 that in seven years people would be seriously proposing putting nuclear reactors in aeroplanes I'd think you were crazy. And yet, here we are. Have we forgotten? How quickly we swing from one kind of hysteria to another.
in the worst-case scenario, if the armour plating around the reactor was pierced there would be a risk of radioactive contamination over a few square miles
And that's supposed to make us feel better? Fun fact: the area of Manhattan is 23 square miles, and 1.8 million people live there.
Seriously, I'm a supporter of nuclear power if it's used sensibly, but strapping wings to nuclear reactors and sending a couple of hundred to fly over every city on Earth every day doesn't sound like "sensible" to me.