Offshore and marine vessel-based nuclear reactor configuration, deployment and operation

Abstract

A marine nuclear power installation includes a buoyant nuclear reactor module that is adapted to be floated across a surface of a body of water and secured at a location distal from a landmass. An aerial monitor is adapted to monitor a first aerial defense zone, above the surface of the body of water, where the first aerial defense zone is defined by a first cylindrical aerial volume having a first aerial height and a first aerial radius centered on the buoyant nuclear reactor module. A subsurface monitor is adapted to monitor a first subsurface defense zone, beneath the surface of the body of water, where the first subsurface defense zone is defined by a first cylindrical subsurface volume having a first subsurface depth and a first subsurface radius centered on the buoyant nuclear reactor module. The first subsurface radius is less than the first aerial radius.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.