Reply #2: Here is a good article from Counterpunch on significance of NRC findings on AP1000

[kristopher]

http://www.counterpunch.org/wasserman11152010.html

It is hard to winnow this one down even though it is rather brief, so here is just a teaser.

""In 2003, my colleagues and I reported that the drainage of a spent fuel pool by a jet crash could lead to a catastrophic spent fuel radiation fire that could render a 27,000 sq mile area uninhabitable. This is larger than the combined states of Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey," says reactor expert Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and former Senior Policy Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, 1993-7."