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Why would you assume untrained personnel? These would still be regulated by the DoE.
by function_seven 4y ago
Why would you assume untrained personnel? These would still be regulated by the DoE.
- jimnotgym 4y agoWhat about security? In the UK nuclear installations are under 24/7 armed guard from a special police force. That would be expensive to maintain in a remote region, although I guess they already have security at diamond mines, or instance
- tecleandor 4y agoI guess that comparing it to the cost of setting up a super long power line and maintaining it (sabotages, fires, whatever), maybe it's interesting.
- inglor_cz 4y agoVastness of rural US is a security factor on its own. Plenty of military installations in the desert aren't even fenced.
- Swenrekcah 4y agoThey’re perhaps not fenced but presumably they’re full of armed military personnel?
- bell-cot 4y agoYou've never really been out in the American West, have you? Just one example - the Nevada Test and Training Range alone is a bit over 4,500 square miles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Ran... Vs. Wikipedia says the entire U.S. Army (active duty) has ~485,000 personnel. Divide...and that's ~0.17 Army people per acre, even if the US Army had NO job except holding down the NTTR. (Which is actually US Air Force, BTW.) [Edit: But +1 - because in the bigger picture you make a valid point. However vast the open spaces, at the spots where the cool & expensive stuff sits, there does have to be some sort of "real" security. If only so dodgy locals don't swing by with a pair of bolt cutters, and start helping themselves.]
- Swenrekcah 4y agoThanks for the perspective, you are indeed right that I’ve never been “out there”.
- inglor_cz 4y agoThere was a German family once that might have paid with their lives for that presumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans
- bell-cot 4y agoReasonable Assumption: The "remote communities", "mining sites", etc. which both qualify for a nuclear power plant, and can afford it, will be fairly select & high-budget places.
- goodpoint 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident...