From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 04:11:00 MDT
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, jeff davis wrote:
> > Actually, nuke plants with a containment are claimed
> > to be engineered to withstand the impact of a
> > crashing plane.
>
> I based my statement on that. My mistake.
Dunno how badly they lie, but
http://www.infokreis-kernenergie.org/d/faq_thema06.cfm#6u4
claims that. They explicitly say that a military jet doing a worst case
angle impact at 775 km/h has a higher penetration density than a Jumbo
Jet, and they *claim* the containment won't be penetrated by that.
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