Nuclear Power plants

[jolara]

In case of nuclear attack, I can only assume nuclear power plants will be in the bullseye of our attackers.
Does anyone know how far a nuclear power plant will actually "disintegrate" an area by distance?

[AzProtector]

In case of nuclear attack, I can only assume nuclear power plants will be in the bullseye of our attackers.
Does anyone know how far a nuclear power plant will actually "disintegrate" an area by distance?

Jolara,

The wind from Tonopah, bounces North from S. Mountain up the White Tanks then spreads into the NW and N Valley area...then to Fountain Hills area the the Reservation.....
But it depends of the TYPE of attack on Palo Verde. when we lived in the Valley, it was something I always kept in the back of my mind, but didn't worry too much about. As opposed to an attack on our water, transportation or electrical distribution....that I obsessed over. Think about what were to happen if someone dropped one of the overpasses over I-10 or I-17? How tough would it be to damage our water distribution system? Pretty easy I think. What if a few of the electrical distribution transformer things got hit with a car bomb....it took months to fix the one in Glendale after a small fire.....imagine that on a larger scale.

[Caplock50]

Although I was trained by our military in this type of warfare, my knowledge is old and out of date. IIRC, those nuke power plants are built with too many safeguards nowadays to actually blow up...go nuclear. It'd be more like a huge 'dirty bomb'...a 'conventional' explosion spreading radioactive material around the area.

I admit...I haven't kept up on all this stuff...as maybe I should have. We do need someone with more up-to-date knowledge to chime in here. Still, a nuke power plant going nuclear is one of the least of my worries...and I'm surrounded by 6 nuke targets here.

[DreadPirate]

I think the key words are "China Syndrome". Thats when the core heats up to a point and melts its way down until it hits the water table then gets belched back up as steam laced with radiation.

[north runner]

In case of nuclear attack, I can only assume nuclear power plants will be in the bullseye of our attackers.
Does anyone know how far a nuclear power plant will actually "disintegrate" an area by distance?

You mean like a Chernobyl. Oddly enough I'm not sure a nuclear plant would be a direct target. Once the grid goes down they all shut down anyway and its no simple thing restarting a nuke plant and getting it back on line. It takes power. Nuclear power plants are not even required to be EMP proof. Just in case I was wrong though I wouldn't want to be within 100 miles of one without a fallout shelter, food water etc. etc.