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... The committee focused its discussions about terrorist attacks around the concept of a maximum credible scenario -- that is, an attack that is physically possible to carry out and that produces the most serious potential consequences within a given class of attack scenarios. The following example illustrates the concept: One of the scenario classes considered by the committee in this chapter involves suicide attacks against spent fuel storage facilities with civilian passenger aircraft.
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... Even if such a weapon could be obtained, the committee can think of no reason that it would be used against a spent fuel storage facility rather than another target. There are easier ways to attack spent fuel storage facilities, as discussed in the classified report, and there are more attractive targets for nuclear weapons, for example, large population centers.
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