From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 00:57:25 MDT
> "Smigrodzki, Rafal" wrote:
>
> I like nuclear power as a technical solution and I am not worried about
> waste and accidents but there is one big problem - any eco-terrorist or
> suicide bomber with a few tons of high explosive could drive up to a
> power plant and make the surrounding 1000+ sq miles unlivable for the
> next couple hundred years. Unfortunately, in assessing any technology we
> have to consider the potential for malicious attacks.
As I understand it, you can crash a 747 into a nuclear power plant without
causing a contaminative accident. However, this is only a vague memory on
my part, and may be apocryphal.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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