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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.

Do not think that Focus Fusion will somehow be immune to this stuff.

One pressure vessel inspector (for State of California), required that some piping be torn out and replaced, for a second time, because after it was replaced the first time and all necessary inspections and paperwork given to him (this had been neglected by the contractor that built the plant), the wind blew the papers out of his clipboard while he was in the parking lot. He then refused to accept replacement documents, and wanted the pipe torn out and replace again. He first name was, I swear this is true, Nimrod.

PS: My letter of protest to Mr N. T.’s boss resulted in the acceptance of the replacement documents. But still…..