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...haven't been able to test it out first-hand. But if the features work as advertised, you'll get the same navigation and manipulation tools that you get with Yahoo and Google's maps, but with an interesting twist: you will also have the option of viewing an aerial photograph of the local area, or select Hybrid View to see the photo with streets and major places labeled. Going forward, the company says it plans to give users the ability to add points of interest and other details to maps of neighborhoods they know-wiki style...
Though the idea of suicidal pilots crashing planes into reactors provoked sensational headlines after 9/11, studies commissioned by the NRC and the nuclear industry concluded that the chances of an aerial attack producing a major release of radioactivity are low. The NRC believes the concrete-and-steel containment shielding most portions of a nuclear plant would withstand being hit by an airplane. Other experts, including a recent National Academy of Sciences (N.A.S.) panel, disagree, saying the particular design and vulnerabilities of each plant make such blanket assurances meaningless...
...stop airplanes from crashing into them. Antiaircraft batteries and the troops to operate them would also help but could pose hazards to innocent aircraft drifting off course. NRC officials say the likelihood of installing missiles or shields is virtually nil. The agency believes the place to thwart an aerial-attack plot is at the airport, not at the plant...
...aftermath of 9/11, Germany ordered its nuclear power industry to devise a defense against aerial attacks. The industry responded with a smokescreen--literally. Germany's 18 nuclear power plants were to be protected by fog machines that would obscure the plants from incoming aircraft. The plan was sent for revisions, however, after the Germans realized that in the event of a collision, the smokescreen would confound rescue workers...
France has taken the threat of nuclear terrorism relatively seriously. Its 59 generators and treatment facilities are protected by armed guards and, following 9/11, aerial radar. Nuclear power plants are state-managed, eliminating the profit motive as an incentive for cutting back on safety. --Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Hanna Kite/Hong Kong, J.F. O. McAllister/ London, Ursala Sautter/Bonn and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo