Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Public Report (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Please use the TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SPENT FUEL STORAGE 25 2 TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SPENT FUEL STORAGE This chapter addresses the final charge to the committee to "explicitly consider the risks of terrorist attacks on [spent fuel] and the risk these materials might be used to construct a radiological dispersal device." The concept of risk as applied to terrorist attacks underpins the entire statement of task for this study.
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The total risk would be the sum of the risks for all possible independent attack scenarios. For example, if a spent fuel storage facility was determined to be vulnerable to attacks using airliners, truck bombs, and armed assaults, the total risk would be calculated as (2)
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their potential for radioactive material releases. This allowed the committee to make qualitative judgments about the vulnerability of spent fuel storage facilities to terrorist attacks and potential measures that could be taken to mitigate them.
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