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Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Public Report (2006) / Chapter Skim
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... Vulnerability analyses of spent fuel pool storage to attacks with large aircraft have been performed by EPRI (Chapter 3) , and analyses of vulnerabilities of dry cask storage to large aircraft attacks have been completed by the German organization GRS (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, mbH)
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... The industry will be responsible for implementing any changes to spent fuel storage to make it less vulnerable to terrorist attack. Clearly, therefore, the industry needs to understand the results of the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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  • power plant
  • commercial nuclear
  • mitigative actions
  • commission staff
  • plant operators

  • security procedures
  • potential consequences
  • plant structures
  • vulnerability analyses
  • analyses described

  • suicide attacks
  • separate effects
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