Every Nuclear Waste Factory and Nuclear Waste Dump Should Be Surrounded by Wind Turbines...for protection!

Think about how the terrorists on 9-11 flew the large commercial airliners into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Horizontally. The fourth plane was undoubtedly supposed to make an attack on the Capital itself, but was nearly taken over by several heroic passengers, so the terrorists simply dove the plane into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Thousands of suicidal Japanese kamikazi pilots during World War Two did it the same way: Diving only if they had to because the situation required it due to "ack-ack" (anti-aircraft fire coming up from the target area) or Allied fighters. Given a choice, it was always a horizontal attack on a ship.

Think about what kind of accuracy you would need to dive a commercial jetliner vertically into a reactor. You'd need practice to perform the maneuver, and you'd still need a good bit of luck to hit your mark, since you couldn't possibly practice in real life, with real wind and thermal conditions. Terrorists don't have the resources to rely on luck for their desired outcomes and must plan more carefully.

Because of these considerations, there is no BETTER way to protect nuclear waste factories (aka "reactors") or nuclear waste dumps (aka "Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations" or ISFSIs) from terrorist or even ACCIDENTAL airplane strikes...than surrounding the reactors or ISFSIs with...wind turbines! Who would have thunk it?

These wind turbines would have no effect on normal commercial flights, which are well above even the tallest wind turbine -- not that I have anything against tethered wind turbines that "float" in the upper atmosphere, which most certainly COULD be in the way of commercial airline traffic...except that traffic is all on preplanned routes, first of all, and second of all: We all need speedy cheap long-distance ground transportation.

Dedicated track national transportation systems are far safer per passenger mile than airplanes will ever be able to achieve, use far less energy, and you can't do any external damage (damage to other things) by hijacking a train -- especially an electric train that can be shut off remotely and might not even have a live operator on board! Have you ever tried to intimidate or threaten a machine?

By Ace Hoffman, Carlsbad, California USA