Originally Posted by
tartare
I fort the nuclear plant was designed to be so strong as to be able to be hit by an airliner and still hold it's structural integrity.
Am I missing something here?
I believe its 3rd generation reactors that have passive safety features built into them that make them relatively safe to external "attacks" to the structure eg via missile or aircraft impact. The ones built in the Arabian gulf post 9/11 had a lot of though put into this aspect for obvious reasons. Still, i assume that the operative word here is
"relatively" safe...
Edit: Can't find a definitive reference, but given the dates of commissioning, I assume Zaporizhzhia NPP is a 2nd generation plant.