Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor

Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by jimnotgym on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:28AM (#33729704)

What 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

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by inglor_cz on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:53AM (#33729863)

Vastness of rural US is a security factor on its own. Plenty of military installations in the desert aren't even fenced.

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by Swenrekcah on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:21AM (#33730080)

They’re perhaps not fenced but presumably they’re full of armed military personnel?

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by bell-cot on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:03AM (#33730353)

You'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_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.]

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by Swenrekcah on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:17AM (#33731485)

Thanks for the perspective, you are indeed right that I’ve never been “out there”.

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by inglor_cz on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:25AM (#33730526)

There was a German family once that might have paid with their lives for that presumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by tecleandor on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:50AM (#33730264)

I 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.

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by bell-cot on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:13AM (#33730435)

Reasonable 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.

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