Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster

schwit1 writes World leaders have fretted for years that terrorists may try to steal one of Pakistan's nuclear bombs and detonate it in a foreign country. But some Karachi residents say the real nuclear nightmare is unfolding here in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city. Of all places to locate a nuclear reactor, they argue, who could possibly make a case for this one — on an earthquake-prone seafront vulnerable to tsunamis and not far from where al-Qaeda militants nearly hijacked a Pakistan navy vessel last fall.

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Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m

[Anonymous Coward]

What actually happened. It was known it could have happened. Nobody gave a fuck. The National Academy of Sciences reported a couple of years ago and said that the problem was ignoring the unlikely scenarios even if it was known that they were possible.

A tsunami that high is not seen as a possible scenario, likely or unlikely.

And the "regional instability" thing is just the West not liking anyone else aspiring to approach it. You know what'll stop backward hicks like ISIS? Technical and social advance, not deliberately holding countries back because they're seen by the World Policemen as too primitive to handle whatever.

Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m

[MrL0G1C]

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

leads to:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

132.5foot = 40.4meters, that's a bit more than 0.9m or 12m. Normal waves can reach 10m in many places.

Perhaps you should 'shut-up' and check your facts.

And for good measure:
Pakistan-earthquake-2013-creates-new-18m-high-island-Gwadar-coast-Arabian-Sea

And
https://books.google.co.uk/boo...
""The trading towns of Pasni and Ormara, Pakistan, located 100 km away from the epicentre, were flooded by a ~15.0m high wall of water""

Still think it's a good place to put a nuclear reactor?

pakistani military is known for professionalism

[circletimessquare]

but some of their loyalties are divided, and in secret

and with so much sectarian hatred, political instability, and poverty in that country, i fear that the most probable scenario for a purposeful nuclear attack in this world (so not accidental, probably plant sabotage) will be in pakistan

i don't think the west has anything to fear. i think india does somewhat. but i think pakistanis have the most to fear by far

there is a lot of bloodlust over there. and not the random yahoo kind, but the organized sectarian kind

i fear for you pakistan