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Germany’s old nuclear reactors vulnerable to extreme weather and to terrorism

It’s not only incidents that worry Greenpeace. The group has highlighted the possibility of a terror attack.

Nuclear horror scenarios for Germany BERLIN, Sept. 28 (UPI) — Chernobyl-like disasters at Germany’s most vulnerable reactors could render parts of the country uninhabitable for decades, Greenpeace has warned.The environmental organization has asked meteorologists at a university in Vienna to simulate the aftermaths of major incidents at three German reactors.
Chernobyl-like disasters at Kruemmel, Isar 1 and Biblis B — three of Germany’s most incident-prone reactors, critics say — could send a deadly nuclear cloud across Germany, the scientists found.

In the case of a Chernobyl-like disaster at Kruemmel, a reactor south of Hamburg, unfavorable weather conditions could render large parts of northeastern Germany, including Berlin, uninhabitable for decades, the group warned.

“An estimated 4.7 million people would have to be resettled in this scenario,” Greenpeace writes in a news release.

Using weather data from 1995, the scientists from Vienna calculated the path the radioactivity would take in the 10 days after the incident,……
It’s not only incidents that worry Greenpeace. The group has highlighted the possibility of a terror attack.

The group commissioned a study on the effects of mobile anti-tank missile systems used by terrorists targeting nuclear power plants. Unveiled earlier this month, it claims that terrorists could use the relatively small and mobile Russian-made Korent missile system, for example, to penetrate the outer shell of most German reactors.

Nuclear horror scenarios for Germany – UPI.com

September 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, reactors