Planes & Nuclear power stations (4.1MB)
 

Want to fly in to one? Here's about what'll happen:

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Edit: Here's the link...the embed doesn't seem to function right now.

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Crazy. Though in all liklihood if that were to happen it would be a 7-series airliner and not a fighter jet.

One of those would be a lot less compact and a lot more flexible. With the exception of the engines, most of it would probably just crumple and absorb the impact.

that would suck to be on the plane when it hit the wall, but not for long.

Well, maybe if using airliners for kamikaze attacks had been fashionable when the average reactor designer learned his trade, then it would have been constructed deep underground.

Then you'd only need to worry about the mole people.

Aww, I thought this was going to be a post about the NB-36H, the plane with the onboard nuclear reactor

http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/anp.jpg

or ground water contamination...

Nope. We don't need to worry about that. It's been fully accomplished by the generation before mine.

I can't view that document yet, but I asked this one when I was working at a nuke in Texas. It was a consideration during design, as were many other scenarios.