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    Default Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?

    Given that as we head into this solar maximum with the magnetosphere weakening, perhaps we have some additional considerations to ponder. Yes coming from MSM so some sensationalized fear mongering perhaps ... but if we have the kind of solar radiation hits some are expecting then this issue is real. Article mentions quakes/tsunamis but does not take into account what may occur due to the sun:

    Can US nuke plants handle blackouts? Review ordered.

    WASHINGTON — Long before the nuclear emergency in Japan, U.S. regulators knew that a power failure lasting for days at an American nuclear plant, whatever the cause, could lead to a radioactive leak. Even so, they have only required the nation's 104 nuclear reactors to develop plans for dealing with much shorter blackouts on the assumption that power would be restored quickly.

    In one nightmare simulation presented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2009, it would take less than a day for radiation to escape from a reactor at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant after an earthquake, flood or fire knocked out all electrical power and there was no way to keep the reactors cool after backup battery power ran out.

    That plant, the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station outside Lancaster, has reactors of the same older make and model as those releasing radiation at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which is using other means to try to cool the reactors.

    And like Fukushima Dai-ichi, the Peach Bottom plant has enough battery power on site to power emergency cooling systems for eight hours.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42324053...s-environment/
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    Default Re: Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?

    Quote Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
    Given that as we head into this solar maximum with the magnetosphere weakening, perhaps we have some additional considerations to ponder. Yes coming from MSM so some sensationalized fear mongering perhaps ... but if we have the kind of solar radiation hits some are expecting then this issue is real. Article mentions quakes/tsunamis but does not take into account what may occur due to the sun:
    Funny how most forget that the sun affects the planet (and solar system); why not forget, everyone only sees it - everyday.

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    Default Re: Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?

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    Quote Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
    Given that as we head into this solar maximum with the magnetosphere weakening, perhaps we have some additional considerations to ponder. Yes coming from MSM so some sensationalized fear mongering perhaps ... but if we have the kind of solar radiation hits some are expecting then this issue is real. Article mentions quakes/tsunamis but does not take into account what may occur due to the sun:
    Funny how most forget that the sun affects the planet (and solar system); why not forget, everyone only sees it - everyday.
    Thank you.

    This isn't "coming from fear" but simply consider the last big CME (in the 1870's or whenever it was) that wiped out most of the telegraph connections (at least here).

    Is it not worthwhile to speculate (let alone PREPARE) for such a thing again considering the state of the magnetosphere and only having about 8 hours of backup on *many* of the US based nuke plants???
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    Default Re: Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?

    Are any of the transformers being prepared?
    "Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
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    Default Re: Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?

    Quote Posted by dan i el (here)
    Are any of the transformers being prepared?
    I have zero first hand knowledge of such.

    Shooting "from the hip" I would speculate the only preparation for the last 20 or so years has been underground and I sure don't have a ticket.

    You???

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