X-Message-Number: 20685
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:45:36 -0800
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Nuclear reactors and airplanes
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Thomas Donaldson wrote, re a Science article:
"It seems that a plane at 480 mph going into a wall 3.6
meters thick would penetrate the wall by about 5 centimeters."

What kind/size of plane?  With how much fuel?  What difference
might where it hits make?  The age or manufacture of the wall?
Temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.?  The PSI (the
"pointiness" of the plane)?

If all this together could make two factors of ten, the wall
would be breached.  I bet you that one factor of ten would
be more than enough to get the reactor shut down.

-- 
May you live long and prosper,
Kennita
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