Was the television show 24 realistic in its portrayal of a terrorist being able to take control of nuclear power plants via the internet and kill hundreds of thousands of people?
No, that show was absurd. For one thing, it is impossible to control nuclear power plants over the internet because their control systems are not connected to the internet. Moreover, a commercial nuclear power plant could not possibly cause the deaths of a large number of people. That is physically impossible and a paper in the prestigious journal Science said so. We also have actual history to back that up. The disaster at Chernobyl resulted in the near-term deaths of about thirty people. Since a commercial nuclear power plant could not possibly release radioactive material on the scale that occurred at Chernobyl, it’s impossible to cause the immediate deaths portrayed in 24.
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