Expert: EU reactors can't take plane hit

Expert: EU reactors can't take plane hit
Berlin (UPI) Apr 19, 2011 -
Most European nations lack safety standards that would protect nuclear power plants from terrorist attacks involving aircraft, the head of Germany's reactor security commission said Tuesday. "A majority of countries have very low safety requirements for the scenario of a plane crashing into a reactor," Rudolf Wieland told the foreign press corps in Berlin. Wieland heads an indepe ... more