[Dark Wing]

>>Sounds like something they could move some military in for?

Possibly.

The issue is the USA does not have a standardized commercial power plant control room set up like France. Each nuclear plant is unique and requires a separate certification of operators.

USN nuke operators know their ship reactors and all the basics in terms of dosimeter protocols.

They don’t know how to scram a commercial nuclear plant safely, slowly and without damage unless the have weeks of training and OJT with the particular commercial nuclear plant set up.

In an emergency you can beach a lot of subs and carriers and throw these guys in, but they are going to need all sorts of training from people who are either sick or in quarantine because the Feds have not thought that far.

[cgbg]

I am not sure you understand.

Here are the numbers.

Let us say you have 100 employees who are critical.

We know from international statistics that 60 of them can be infected (even with full spread in the facility).

Of those 60 only 9 will be sick enough to require hospitalization and have to be moved from the premises.

Of them 1 or 2 will die.

Those are the numbers.

The plant can suck it up with 91 people working—especially since a few more folks can be brought in if needed.

No there there.

[Thud]

The uniqueness of individual power plant design and operations was drilled into me by California OES. They had to retrain their inspectors for each different nuclear power plant.

This uniqueness also dramatically increased the construction and operating costs of nuclear power plants. If that was required of natural gas power plants, their construction and operating expenses would treble.

And the requirement for such uniqueness for nuclear power plants is entirely political. The only real factors applying here are those due to concerns about flooding and earthquakes.