[11721] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nuclear power for POPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Aug 8 19:42:15 1997
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:32:44 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
CC: William Duncanson <caesar@psa.pencom.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Heh. At some point of time the Relcom's NOC and
main Moscow hub (which was conviniently located at
Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy) had a real
nuclear reactor for backup power.
In fact, given BBN's power problems you may be interested
in purchasing few ARGUS units (Soviet-made mobile nuclear
power plant, on several all-terrain vehicles) though neighbours
may take a dim view :)
Life is werider than imagination :)
--vadim
John Curran wrote:
>
> At 14:50 8/8/97, William Duncanson wrote:
> >> I'll be more than happy to leverage my experience from my Nuclear
> >> Engineering days to help Internet companies plan for these redundant
> >> power plants. Each load of fuel would be good for about 18 to 24
> >> months of sustained operation, and we could even design it so that
> >> should it experience an explosion, there is no confusion or expectation
> >> on the performance and viability of colocated and nearby equipment.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >Sign me up! I want one of these in my back yard. I figure I could
> >probably run the whole block off of one of these.
>
> It may soon be necessary to include one of these in each POP,
> given notable vendors increasing power demands...
>
> Chris, can you do 23" open rack designs?
>
> ;-)
> /John
