Safe and Secure: Protecting Our Nuclear Energy Facilities

This six-minute video highlights security operations at nuclear power plants, including patrols by armed guards, detection equipment, physical barriers -- and the design of the plant itself.

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[Bryan Elliott]

If anyone is curious as to why the control room is lined with gauges, rather than computer terminals:

The instrumentation does get sent to computers, and the normal operation is done via monitor (you can see one @2:36, for example), but the internal control systems are largely analogue, and can always be accessed and operated in the event of a software failure.

It's just another layer of safety, or the computers are a layer of convenience, depending on how you look at it.

[Thinker9219]

Excellent video. I know first hand that this is right on.