Quoth John Young:

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Sure. Don't go for the hard-headed containment structure, knock out the soft-shelled control facility which regulates cooling pumps. The reactor will do the rest just as effectively as planes weakened the towers so they would self-destruct. ... Nuclear power plants are likely a feint as well, with so many soft-shells ready to eat<<

The reactors have such a nice chewy center that its worth it to try to breach the crunchy shell. Whacking the cooling or control will take out the power generation[1] but will not spread the spicy isotopes on the happy fun people. [1] Creating a power deficit which might not be picked up by the Grid, and so felt e.g., by Californians during certain seasons. ------- my cat has a box of bentonite. should I turn him in?