On: Norway is building thorium reactor

[tarre]

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

[moe → tarre]

That's nice. Except these facilities tend to last 50+ years, and planes keep getting bigger...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/vulnerable-to-pl...

[tarre → moe]

None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001. Before that hardly anyone cared about planes, when designing nuclear power plant.

[moe → tarre]

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 → moe]

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.