[11709] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Nuclear power for POPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Gibson)
Fri Aug 8 17:06:02 1997
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Gibson <tim@taggnet.skyscape.net>
To: "Chris A. Icide" <chris@nap.net>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BCA410.BF4F2B80@Mallard.nap.net>
Cooling is not a problem, we have a guy that designed the cooling for the
Candu reactors. Al came up with a cooling unit for a portable high power
laser system for us awhile ago. He's got it down to convection driven
liquid nitrogen with a delta T of over 140 degrees in the size of a pop
can. If you can spare 18" in a regular telco rack in the POP , you could
put 4 - 8 such units in.
Tim Gibson
Skyscape Communications
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Chris A. Icide wrote:
> We could probably fit one based on the old disimilar metal designs, but we
> would be limited to non raised floor surfaces as the lead cabinets and lead
> curtains would probably exceed the raised floor capacity limits. We'd also have
> to supply some method of heat removal, since I doubt the heat radiation panels
> would fit in any conventional data center space. This means we would have
> to have some kind of active cooling system (of course requiring a uninteruptable
> power system to make sure it's available 100%). In the mean time we could
> document the effects of radiation upon network vendor hardware
> equipment. Remember the old "internet could survive a nuclear conflict"?
> Maybe we ought to combine it with that missile silo someone noted a few
> months ago.
>
> Chris
