What if the World Trade Centre had been a nuclear power station?
Terrorists don’t need nuclear weapons when there are ready-made Atomic bombs awaiting detonation by a hijacked aircraft loaded with fuel. Peter Bunyard examines the facts. In early September, on BBC Radio 4’s Commission programme, Matthew Taylor of the Institute of Public Policy Research asked Nuclear Forum representative, Adrian Ham, whether the electricity supply industry had taken fully into account the implications of a plane loaded with explosives being crashed purposefully into a reactor. Ham reassured Taylor that the reinforced concrete containment dome over a reactor such as the Sizewell B station in Suffolk, would withstand such an onslaught. Moreover, he stated, if nuclear weapons were involved, why bother to go for a relatively difficult target, such as a reactor, when death and destruction could be more easily wreaked elsewhere? A few days later, the twin towers of Manhattan’s World Trade Centre were destroyed by an explosive force in the region of 1 kilotonne of TNT, equiv
