I’ve been wondering lately how many of the new ultra safe small modular reactor sites that pop up over the next 20 years are going to include legitimate fail safe air defence systems, or be hardened sufficiently to prevent them from being turned into “dirty”disaster sites after being hit with a couple dozen $200 drones every second week. Especially after the site operators have navigated a decade of regulatory red tape and incurred two to five billion in expenses to develop the site.
Current prospective operators of these sites have to submit physical security plans to the NRC as part of their proposals, but I predict that pursuit of the almighty dollar will see security become one of the first casualties after dozens of these sites are up and running.
Not to mention that attackers only have to be successful once, at one site, to upset the entire industry and create a swath of land downwind of the site that is uninhabitable and incapable of being cultivated for crops or forest products.
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