NRC spokesman Victor Dricks, noting that the plants " are not designed against acts of war, " said the NRC could not rule out the possibility of a radioactive release if a plant were struck by a fuel-laden jetliner.
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"If this had occurred on a larger scale, it might have affected the core and caused a radioactive release or even an explosion of the whole reactor, " said Jinzaburo Takagi, a former nuclear engineer and fulltime lobbyist against the plant.
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"If this had occurred on a larger scale, it might have affected the core and caused a radioactive release or even an explosion of the whole reactor, " said Jinzaburo Takagi, a former nuclear engineer and outspoken opponent of the plant.
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CREWS was implemented to pick up traces of Iodine-131 in the air and alert U . S . officials in the event of a large radioactive release from nuclear reactors near Juragua, about 80 miles south of Havana, which are still only partially built.
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At an NPP, the adversary force attempts to reach and simulate damage to key safety systems and components, defined as " target sets " that protect the reactor s core or the spent fuel pool, which could potentially cause a radioactive release to the environment.
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In " 37 ( of the 81 mock attacks ), the expert NRC team identified a significant weakness : significant being defined as the adversary team simulating sabotaging a target set, which would lead to core damage and in many cases, to a probable radioactive release,"
