Terrorist attacks on PWR nuclear stations have already been shown to be not a problem, and I don't consider attacks on stored waste could possibly be a problem. What remains of the higher level waste after five years under water is vitrified in a manner that would take vast quantities of explosive to split open a few cylinders, the waste being distributed throughout the solid glass means the parts are no more dangerous than the whole. The tiny amount of the aftermath would be cleared with ease and couldn't possibly present any danger to anyone not actually pressing up against it.
Again an imaginary problem I'm afraid, having no possible attraction to a terrorist group.
Sorry John, but all the anti nuclear arguments commonly heard are based on fallacies or the earliest nuclear technology which is no longer used as it was originally.
Academic anyway of course, we are at last going to get it I'm pleased to say, and with time the antis will be pleased to use the resulting electricity. I'm just annoyed that we didn't go ahead in the 1970s and '80s thanks to the anti movement.
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