The advantage is that the fuel is in the form of Uranium Carbide - which even if stolen, would be very, very hard to "grind up" in order to enrich it enough for even a dirty bomb. It is one of the most difficult materials known to machine, even with the best diamond based cutters; and has a very high melting temperature, which would make it very difficult to melt down into some kind of machinable form.
Of course, the problem facing Uranium Carbide fuels is the very problem of disposal or reprocessing, which would tax current state of the art technologies; but disposal is the problem that all state of the art reactor designs are facing.
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A big problem is terrorism. They would most likely have some fairly intense air protection around those bad boys.
Many speculate the reason that one of the 9/11 flights went down in Pennsylvania was because it shot down since the army thought it was heading towards the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. That would have taken out the entire eastern seaboard including southern ontario and the clouds would have taken out of the rest of us in due time...
A big problem is terrorism. They would most likely have some fairly intense air protection around those bad boys.
Many speculate the reason that one of the 9/11 flights went down in Pennsylvania was because it shot down since the army thought it was heading towards the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. That would have taken out the entire eastern seaboard including southern ontario and the clouds would have taken out of the rest of us in due time...
Smacking a plane into a reactor building wouldn't cause a nuclear explosion.
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