Nuclear Safety 03
Nuclear Safety 03 : The interdisciplinary team from MIT also went on to endorse that it was possible to make nuclear power safe, and argued for a large expansion in the number of new nuclear power plants to be built between 2005 and 2055, to cut CO2 emissions, and went on to state that the substantial safety features of the currently under construction Generation III reactors appear 'plausible' at reducing the serious accident rate to near zero with, amongst other features, the use of passive safety features which are now part of the state of the art in nuclear safety. They further stated that together with these safety systems: Advanced Light water reactors will be in a very good position to drive a large share of the global growth scenario market. According to anti-nuclear advocate Mark Z. Jacobson catastrophic scenarios involving terrorist attacks on reactors with the intent of releasing radiation are conceivable. However nuclear power plants pose a major obstacle for terrorists as they must deal with the hardened nature of the containment building, with an analysis endorsed by an interdisciplinary team from MIT finding that if an airline crashed into a reactor housing, the plane would not breach the containment building. To frame nuclear power together with other low carbon sources of dependable power, catastrophic terrorist attacks are also conceivable in hydroelectric dam scenarios, and depending on location, could result in a comparable death toll to the worst conceivable nuclear attack. Furthermore, terrorist attacks on nuclear plants have never been successful at breaching the reactor
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