The growth in the availability and use of small drones is a serious security problem for nuclear weapons facilities. In a highly publicized incident, drones invaded the airspace of a French nuclear power plant in 2015. ISIS is beginning to employ weaponized drones on battlefields in the Middle East. If a drone loaded with explosives entered the grounds of a U.S.
India is in a difficult situation with respect to energy production. It has modest internal resources but is projecting a need to increase energy production ninety percent in the next 13 years. It does not share any borders with energy exporting countries and is thus vulnerable to possible interference with energy delivery depending on geopolitical problems in its neighborhood.
I have posted blog stories about start-ups working on nuclear fusion reactors. Now there is a new start-up that is attempting to develop a hybrid fusion-fission power reactor. Mike Cassidy, formerly a Vice President at Alphabet's (formerly Google) X research laboratory and now a consultant for Google, has started a new company called Apollo Fusion.
