Just in my lifetime there has been the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukishima disasters. I don't think nuclear is safe at all. When something goes wrong with nuclear power, it's a long-term disaster. Fukishima is STILL poisoning the entire Pacific over 6 year later! I don't think the damage is going to stay in the Pacific either.
Thought you would find this worth a thought.
So, it was impossible to bring the WTC Towers down by any kind of traditional controlled demolition.
The same thing could be said about the WTC building # 7 and of the Sears Tower in Chicago. Either of them was constructed using similar thick double-walled steel frame that was impossible to break at once due to reasons described above.
However, in accordance with the US laws governing construction of skyscrapers buildings designers had to submit some satisfactorily demolition project before their construction project could be approved by
the Department of Buildings. No one could be allowed to build a skyscraper that can't be demolished in the future.
This is the main point of the skyscrapers' in-built nuclear demolition features.
Ironically, such a nuclear demolition scheme of a skyscraper is not meant to actually demolish the respective skyscraper, especially considering that no one has any practical experience in demolishing skyscrapers by such means - it is only intended to convince the Department of Buildings to permit the skyscraper's construction whatsoever.
It appears that all designers and proponents of such nuclear demolition schemes sincerely hope that their ideas would not be put to use during their life-time.
Anyhow, "Controlled Demolition Inc." began to study possibilities of demolishing modern skyscrapers by underground nuclear explosions at the end of 60s, at request of the then New York Sate Governor
Nelson Rockefeller - when it became necessary to get a legal approval from the New York Department of Buildings for the WTC Twin Towers construction.
After some research, a final solution was found and
approved by the Department of Buildings and "Controlled Demolition Inc." got its nuclear demolition know-how patented.
You can not make this stuff up. Read the whole article below.
Nuclear Demolition of Skyscrapers
Each one of us knows so little. A case of "The more I know, the less I know"