Asking for a friend: What munitions do you need to take out a modern nuclear power plant? It seems like 90% of the structure is concrete and steel with most of the news stories we've heard over the years being damage to power cables and fires in generator rooms.It might make sense to try and crack them on the ground but they're also designed to be earthquake proof.
>>65162717the reactor core is encased in several metres of concrete and steel, I doubt a single bunker buster would be enough to touch it.
>>65162717depends on which ones and their construction, iirc the french ones aren't under all that much material. you'd probably have a better time destroying all the auxialry sub systems and petering out those safeties like fukashima and having them pop a week later.
>>65162781meters of concrete, centimeters of steel. They're made to withstand airplane crashes. Airplanes, you know, hollow metal/composite cans light enough to fly. Not a tip of tungsten pushed by an incompressible mass of even more tungsten.Your bunker busters are shit if they can't manage that.And you damage the cooling circuit you're probably going to get a meltdown anyway, even if there are backup systems, because you fucked the thing up beyond whatever it was designed for. Hope it has a core-catcher.
Iran sent one of their pissy little scooter-bike with wings at it, and it caused a fire probably in some administrative building. It's not serious.
>>65162717IIRC one of the US invasion plans for North Korea back in the early '00s called for shattering the reactor casings of their plants with GBU-24s (fitted to the then new advanced penetrator BLU-116) then trusting the radiation release to keep the locals (and enterprising scavengers looking for material to sell) away until they could be properly secured after the war.
War crime
>>65162824anon how have you not learned only losers commit war crimes
>>65162717Define "take out". Killing the transformer station can be done with suprisingly little. Breaching a reactor vessel will need heavy bunker busters.
>>65162875the americans are the ones targeting UAE nuke plants?
>>65162717all you need to do it penetrate the fuel pool so the water drains out and the fuel rods stored there for cooling start to burn. See fukushima meltdows the fuel pools were outside the containment and were smoking and the FD risked their live to set hoses and water streams to flood water on them. If plant is running and suddenly forced to shut down and you disrupt the reactor cooling it will meltdown - see Fukushima reactor meltdowns. Even three mile island melted down because of one fault in a water cooling pipe. The funny part about 3 miles island is the nuclear accident occured about one week after the movie "The China Syndrome" came out. good times.
>>65162815Don't know how this plant is setup, but newer plants are designed in a such a way that catastrophic damage defaults to a cooling state. A simplified example would be a powered gate to control water flow is kept closed only when power is supplied or the mechanism is intact. Loss of power of destruction of the mechanism results in the gate opening through gravity/physics.
>>65162717>TIL the UAE has a buclear power plantWho thought giving arabs nuclear tech was a good idea?
>>65162781sir, do you understand they most likely have Jews and Jeets at the controls, and The Jews all fled 2 months ago, and The Jews stole a bunch of important stuff on their way out?
Graphite bombs could do what you need them to do for the lowest financial and humanitarian cost. Although you are limited to a short(er) timeframe and passive defences are easily implemented.
>>65164134Iran has one too
>>65162831That's why he said it.
>>65162815They're also made to withstand stupid pressures from within, like the entire coolant water turning into steam at once.The containment building is made from dummy thick concrete with massive steel tendons all around.Airplanes are really the smaller concern here.That's probably going to help it's changes, but I still wouldn't trust it to survive a bunker buster or two.
Usually takes a crane to take em out
>>65162717>>65162781A bunker buster would blow the core wide open, the concrete is thick enough to stop a steam explosion and no thicker.
>>65163863Such systems need coolant, for example a backup condenser-refeed system. If a bunkerbuster even cracks your containment vessel then the coolant will escape as steam and eventually it'll run out and the core will melt from residual decay heat and potentially form a critical mass again.
>>65162717Btw the security force that works these places wish a nigga would
