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Weeks after Fukushima alleged terrorists were found making their way towards Sellafield in the UK. The obvious viability of this hypothetical attack became apparent after March 11th.


Yes, and ?

Nothing happened.

The fact is that terrorists want to target nuclear plants.

What's unlikely is that any of them should succeed. Terrorism isn't that easy.


It seems about as unlikely as someone flying planes into the world trade center...

But gladly terrorism isn't that easy, right?


Yes, it is probably more unlikely than a big earthquake followed by a tsunami.

How many terrorist attacks of that scale have been successfully conducted ?

Over the last twenty years, only one.

During the same period, there has been a dozen of large-scale earthquakes.

And as I said, you're fare more likely to die from a car accident than from any big disaster you see on television.


Over a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everything drops to zero - and nuclear has a pretty long timeline.




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