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As they forced their way into the control room, many if not most of the attackers might die battling the remaining guards, but it was always a suicide mission. Once inside, the terrorists' hard work would be over. Then, surprisingly, would come the easy part: triggering a nuclear meltdown. They...
The stakes could scarcely be higher. The toll of the 9/11 attacks would probably pale alongside a successful attack on a nuclear plant near a major metropolitan area. A recent study by Edwin Lyman, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, estimates that if terrorists triggered a meltdown at...
Nonsense, says the NEI's Fertel. The electric industry's research institute concluded that probably only about 100 people would be killed in such an attack, he says. In any case, Fertel has told Congress, the chances of terrorists provoking such a disaster are "so incredibly low it is not...
Despite transforming herself from a voluptuous redhead into a skinny blond, LINDSAY LOHAN still can't blend into Los Angeles enough to shake off the paparazzi. So she's trying something new--fighting back. The Herbie: Fully Loaded star is pressing charges against a photographer who she says rammed her...
More than a quarter-century after the Three Mile Island accident seemed to have sealed its fate, nuclear power has "a head of steam now that it hasn't had before," says Andrew White, head of General Electric's nuclear-energy business. Concerns about global warming and demand for electricity...