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Securing a Small Nuclear Reactor – bury it in a missile silo or bunker
greenm3.com (Nov 17 2009) Nuclear
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I was talking to an entrepreneur at Santa Fe Institute’s Business Networking event after a presentation by Stewart Brand on Nuclear Power. We discussed the idea of micro nuclear reactors, and he says it will not happen because of the security issues required for a small nuclear plant vs. a large one, and the danger of terrorist attacks.
With all the talk of data center in bunkers and missile silos. How about burying a small nuclear reactor in a missile silo? Seems pretty secure. It is another way to recycle and re-use.
Here is a dataecenterknowledge post from 2007 where a missile silo was being sold as a data bunker.
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