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At least in European Union new nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a collision of any currently used commercial airplane.

• moe 14y ago
  That's nice. Except these facilities tend to last 50+ years, and planes keep getting bigger... http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/vulnerable-to-plane-crashes-german-nuclear-reactor-safety-test-finds-flaws-a-763158.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/vulnerable-to-pl...
  • tarre 14y ago
    None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001. Before that hardly anyone cared about planes, when designing nuclear power plant.
    • moe 14y ago
      None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001. Yes. I guess we'll be fine if we just kindly ask those terrorists to not crash their planes into an older plant.
      • tarre 14y ago
        We agree on older plants being not as safe as new ones. My original sentence was about things you just can't prepare for (with any reasonable means). After that I just wanted to say, that it is possible to build plane-safe NPP.