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 ---------- From: John Curran[SMTP:jcurran@bbnplanet.com] Sent: Friday, August 08, 1997 3:09 PM To: William Duncanson Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Nuclear power for POPs 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
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
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