Space Weather Anomalies, Power Grid Collapse And Nuclear Safety

We are living on borrowed time when it comes to this.

All nuke plants should have permanent back-up power generation for cooling reactors and spent fuel ponds in the event of grid failure.
The standard is diesel generators, with about a week's worth of fuel on hand...


Space Weather Anomalies, Power Grid Collapse And Nuclear Safety

[link to www.countercurrents.org]

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Severe space weather that involves transfer of massive amount of energy and matter from the Sun to the Earth is a one in hundred years event, that can cause collapse of power grid on a global scale. Recovery may take months and years. As the last event happened in 1921, there is high probability of a recurrance during the next few decades. Prolonged non-availability of electricity will cause meltdowns and explosions in nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools.

Seventy-one out of 104 nuclear reactors in US are within the areas of probable power system collapse listed in the ORNL study. Thomas Popik of the Resilient Societies petitioned the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to provide nuclear campuses with permanent backup power for running the safety related pumps.