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No, they don’t require security of that nature at water treatment plants (but, they too are centralized facilities, most with a 24/7 staff). Didn’t say it was rational, in fact, said it was not.

But, Focus Fusion plants WILL, for the first period at least, be regulated and licensed by the NRC in the United States. They will, in my opinion, require security.

Just remember, I’m seeing this thru eyes experienced in maintenance, operation and construction of heavy industrial facilities. I would be very poorly equipped to critic the methodology of a laboratory. It may be I’m more concerned than you are, due to having to have dealt with people cutting fences, stealing (usually by employees of either the company or contractors on site doing work) and having the public “intervene”. I’ve personally had some one walk up to me and threaten to “bring friends and guns and dynamite and blow this place up” if it was not shut down (a coal fired plant). He was a crack-pot and local police dealt with him.

But…..this stuff is real.

I’ve had to deal directly with State, and indirectly with federal environmental, OSHA and pressure vessel code inspectors. I’ve seen some real chickenshit. I could fill a couple of posts with stories of just plain stupid stuff they have required. Not something to make the environment cleaner or the work place safer, but to comply with their interpretation of the bureaucratic regulatory system they run.

I seen many automated water treatment plants for small towns.

Yaawn, Appeal to Authority. As we mentioned power sup-stations don’t have security other then a fence, a focus fusion reactor would be the same thing. Any issue of permits are equivalent to systems of similar size and danger, For example a Coal power plant is going to take up much more space, money, produce more harmful byproducts and require more permitting then a 1/10 acre fusion power plant. Even a wind mill of equivalent mega-wattage to a fusion power plant will take up more space (and be a giant “eye sour” to morons that lack aesthetics in clean energy) and require more permitting, The focus fusion reactor would be out of sight out of mind, at the foundation of large buildings (were dangerous machinery like industrial air condition and back-up generators already exist) or attached to existing power substations.