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UK nuclear plants may be next for kamikaze jet attacks 

IAN BRUCE
The Herald, 2 November 2001

      THE crashing of a hijacked passenger jet into
      Sellafield nuclear plant on the Cumbrian coast,
      could release 44 times more lethal radiation
      than the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine.

      Gordon Thompson, executive director of the US
      Institute for Resource and Security Studies in
      Massachusetts, says such an incident would
      send a plume of deadly particles into the
      atmosphere, and certainly contaminate much of
      Britain and Ireland.

      Depending on wind direction and speed, the
      plume might spread over much of the
      near-continent, causing two million cancer
      cases in the next 50 years.

      British Energy, the East Kilbride-based body
      that supervises the UK's seven
      gas-cooledatomic power stations, dismissed Mr
      Thompson's claims as "alarmist".

      But he was backed by Mohamed El Baradei,
      director-general of the International Atomic
      Energy Authority, the UN watchdog authority that
      regulates safety standards for the nuclear
      industry.

      He said targeting nuclear facilities to cause "a
      Chernobyl-style disaster" was the most
      probable choice for terrorist groups hoping to
      "incite panic, contaminate property, and inflict
      death and injury among civilians."

      The path of the PanAm plane blown up by a
      bomb over Lockerbie in 1988 was a few
      moments' flight time from Sellafield.

Full article:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/2-11-19101-0-48-27.html

NOTE: Both Syria and Iran were in the frame for the Lockerbie bombing,
until their support for Desert Storm in 1991 was required. Colonel
Gaddafi was wheeled out to serve as whipping boy on that occasion.

Michael Keaney
Mercuria Business School
Martinlaaksontie 36
01620 Vantaa
Finland

michael.keaney@xxxxxx