A petition filed by the Committee to Bridge the Gap calls for shields of I-beams and steel cabling to keep aircraft from crashing into reactors and spent fuel pools. A petition for rulemaking filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asks the agency to protect nuclear power plants from aircraft attacks by ordering the construction of additional barriers around reactors. These barriers, dubbed "Beamhenge," would help prevent catastrophic damage similar to what happened in New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, according to the Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), the group that filed the petition. Each "Beamhenge" would be made up of shields of I-beams and steel cabling, "so that incoming planes [would] crash into the shield, not [into] the reactor or spent fuel pool," said Daniel Hirsch, president of the CBG.
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