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AG: Hi. I’m Arnie Gundersen. And today we have a real special honor. We have with us a renowned, best-selling author and an MIT grad, Mat Stein. Mat’s here to talk about electromagnetic pulses, commonly called EMP’s and solar storms. So Mat, I’d like to welcome you to Fairewinds and also I’d like to ask the first question. What the heck is an EMP?
MS: Well, thanks for having me on. An EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse. So what happens in the pulse in an EMP, whether it’s a highly charged plasma coming from the sun in a coronal mass ejection, like the sun burps and a bunch of sun stuff is launched into space at 1,000 times faster than our rockets fly – it can go out through space – and then on rare occasions they actually hit the Planet Earth. And on even rarer occasions – we have about 100 very significant geomagnetic storms in the last 152 years – but we’ve had two extreme geomagnetic storms in the last 152 years.
And so the problem on our planet in kind of starting to connect the EMP and solar storm is that the last time we had a really big storm on our planet was in 1921 – the great geomagnetic storm of 1921. 93 years ago was the last time we had a really big one. So since then our grid has grown and our technology’s grown. And we have these Achilles’ heels in the grid now that didn’t exist in 1921. But now we have this giant interconnected grid with these massive transformers that are super susceptible to the EMP. Well, on top of that, we have microelectronics.
Now a solar storm doesn’t really affect the microelectronics because it doesn’t have the E1 and E2 effect of the EMP. So the EMP is much more devastating to electronics on a smaller level; on the area of the affected level. But the solar storm is much more devastating in a different way in that it doesn’t really mess up your small electronics. It won’t cause immediate meltdowns of your nuclear power plants. What the solar storm will do is it will fry much of the grid over most of the Northern and Southern hemispheres for a long, long, long period of time. And the problem is that these giant transformers that I’m talking about that are susceptible both to EMP damage and solar storm damage – they’re roughly 100 tons each; they’re 10 million dollars apiece roughly, and they’re custom built and custom designed. And right now, there’s a 3-year waiting list to have one. In other words, when one fries – and they do on rare occasions – they burn up eventually – it takes a year to get a replacement for it – or three years. When things are going well or if it’s a rush order, you can get one in a year. But normally, like if you just wanted to expand your grid, you’ve got to think 3 years ahead. So in the event of an EMP, you’re going to probably lose dozens of these transformers in a single EMP; perhaps even 50, 60, 70.
In the event of a massive solar storm, which is guaranteed to happen – the last one was 1921 – it was only 60 years before that to an even bigger storm, the 1859 Carrington Event. So this is a guaranteed event. I mean talk about an end-of-the-world scenario – end of the world as we know it, certainly. I mean an EMP itself is bad enough when you think about we’re going to have failed infrastructure. Think about 100 Hurricane Katrinas happening at the same time. Think about how our response was to a single Hurricane Katrina. Now imagine 100 Hurricane (4:11) Katrinas. The entire half of the United States – eastern half of the United States, the most densely populated part of the United States – it’s like a Hurricane Katrina has hit that entire place, the infrastructure is destroyed, the grid is destroyed, the electronics are destroyed, our manufacturing abilities are destroyed – everything is down for a long, long time, because there aren’t enough spare parts in the world to fix that stuff. For years. (4:40)
AG: Let me tell you a story. I was in Washington at the RIC – the Regulatory Information Conference – in 2012, and I had a chance to ask a question of then NRC Chairman Jaczko. And I asked him not about a bomb EMP but about the solar storm electromagnetic pulse and what was the NRC doing about that. And he said it was the last thing on his agenda. Ahh. He just basically felt it was – compared to the other issues on his regulatory agenda, it wasn’t something he was interested in.
MS: Well, I have a letter in my notes right here from Dr. William Graham. Now Dr. William Graham – I keep wanting to call him Billy Graham, but that’s a different doctor – Dr. William Graham was Ronald Regan’s Chief Science Officer for several years, his Chief Science Advisor to Ronald Regan. He spent more than 30 years in the Department of Defense Nuclear Program. He’s a Ph.D. physicist. He was the Chairman of the Bipartisan EMP Commission that was appointed by Congress to study this problem. And he has a letter dated October – that was received by the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it was addressed specifically to him – in October of 2011, a few months after Fukushima had happened. And he is warning them of the specific issue of multiple Fukushima-like events in the event of either a terrorist artificial EMP or a solar storm, and along the lines of the 1921 geomagnetic storm. And he said, well, what’s the chances of this happening. Well, scientifically, the chance of an extreme geomagnetic event, which is a grid-collapsing event over most of North America, is 1 in 8 every decade. So I don’t know about you, but if somebody told me oh, don’t worry about boarding that plane, there’s only a 1-in-8 chance it’s going to crash, I would not get on that plane. But what we’re being told is every single decade, we have a 1-in-8 chance that the world as we know it is going to end, unless we fix it.
And there is a solution – a partial solution – to protect the grid at least. And everything in our world depends on the grid, all these things I’m talking about. When the grid is down nothing is working. And we can protect the grid of the price of a single B2 bomber, a single stealth bomber. And so far, they’re only talking about it. For 50 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned that the levees around New Orleans were going to fail – not if they were going to fail, but they were going to fail when the next category 3 or stronger hurricane hit. They said it’s not a question of if, but when. We don’t know when that next storm’s going to hit. So for 50 years they said it’s going to happen, it’s going to be a catastrophe and we can fix it. It just takes money. And for 50 years, they were ignored; in fact, at one point they approved the money and then the politicians shuffled it into something else. Because it wasn’t sexy. It’s not like having a nice new amphitheater or a big sports arena or something like that to show. It’s just fixing these levees. And everyone looks – well, they’re not broken, right? Nothing’s happening; everything’s okay. (7:48) So we’re in that situation right now where the scientists and engineers, the Department of Defense, Oakridge National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs – these guys all agree this is a real and genuine problem.
So what’s the chance? One in eight chance every decade. It’s been 9 decades since the last one. It was 6 decades before that to the one before that. So we’re living on borrowed time right now. No one knows. Right now we had a very quiet solar maximum. Nothing happened. But the truth of the matter is, solar maximum, solar minimum – a killer solar storm can happen anytime in the solar cycle. It’s just more prone to happen in the maximum and so yeah, we had a very quiet maximum, this last solar maximum. It doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen next week. In fact, earlier this year, there was a coronal mass injection from the sun and a very quiet solar maximum that went off in a direction not too far from the earth. If it had hit the earth, it would have been at least as strong as the 1921 storm and it would have been game over. And it went off, but it didn’t hit us; it just missed us. And if it had hit us, it would have been game over. (8:59)
AG: So we have the sun burps, sends these high-energy particles, hits the earth’s atmosphere and that then hits the electric grid and causes a huge electric spike that burns out all of the –
MS: Not all. Many of hem.
AG: Many of these huge transformers. And that’s one in eight per decade and we’re nine decades into this. So it’s going to happen – and basically we’re living on borrowed time. As I understand it, there was one of these that did knock out the transformer at nuclear plant already.
MS: Yes. In 1989, they had a geomagnetic storm that was strong. But how strong is strong? It is 1/10th as strong as the 1921 storm. So the scientists who look at different things and evaluate different storms geologically, the 1989 storm was 1/10th as strong. And it wiped out one of these massive transformers at a nuclear power plant in New Jersey. It wiped out one of these massive transformers in the Province of Quebec and one in the United Kingdom. So what was the result? Well, in Quebec in the first 30 seconds – the first 30 seconds of this geomagnetic storm, there were 15 simultaneous failures in the grid, one of which being a massive transformer. The entire Province of Quebec was blacked out for 9 hours. Six million people for 9 hours. And there was some parts of Quebec were blacked out for 2 days. Well, that’s one – one transformer. The MetaTtech study, which was funded by the Department of Defense and Oakridge National Labs oversaw it and the National Science Foundation – these guys all pooled together, and they did a computer modeling of the grid. And they based their analysis on the 1921 storm. The 1859 Carrington Event was like the granddaddy of modern storms. That was 50 percent stronger.
They anticipate that’s a once-every-five-hundred year event. So they’re not as worried about that. The 1921 they assume is a once-in-ever-75-to-100-year – somewhere in that range – basically we’re due for that sized one. (11:03) So that event is 10 times stronger than the event that wiped out 3 transformers between Quebec and the United States and the UK, who lost 3 transformers. Now in 2003, there was an event – it was lower in intensity but longer in duration than the 1989 event. And it wiped out a transformer in Sweden and it wiped out – it caused – 14 transformers eventually failed from the overheating and the loss of insulation in the coils. 14 transformers in South Africa failed. Okay. So what does 14 transformers mean? For an entire year, the only way South Africa could function without 14 transformers was they had to ration power. So when you’re going to work in South Africa in 2003, imagine going to work and for 5 or 6 hours 2 or 3 times a week during your workday, there’s no power. There’s no lights, no air conditioning, no phones, no internet, no escalators, no elevators, nothing’s working. And the entire country had to switch power around the country for an entire year to keep the country functioning, and that was the only way they could do it.
AG: And that was for a baby storm.
MS: That was for less than 10 percent – 1/10th – less than 1/10th of the strength. And you know as a scientist and engineer that if you ramp up the strength of an event by a factor of 10, it’s not like you have 10 times more failures. You have – because all of a sudden, you start exceeding the threshold of far more things. If you double it, like you pass the threshold of damage on many more – you double it again and way more. So I honestly think that – and I talked to John Kappenman who did the – wrote the report for the MetaTech study and he admitted that they were very conservative in their estimates. They didn’t want anybody jumping on it. And so when he said like, oh, we’re only going to collapse the grid to 2/3rd’s of the country, that’s really long-term collapse. Because see, in the year 2003 also, they had a massive blackout on the eastern coast of the United States. And at first they said oh, the terrorists, the terrorists – the terrorists did it. Well, it turned out there were some killer trees. You’ve got to watch out for those trees. They’re very highly trained.
AG: Killer trees, right.
MS: Right. So you had a killer tree that caused a cascading failure from the Niagara Plant and it took out power to 50,000,000 people in the United States. So there was no EMP, there was no terrorist act. It was just a killer tree that some power lines snagged into. Snagged into, shorted out and caused cascading failure. In 1996, we had killer trees in Oregon. We had a very hot day. The whole western coast was in a heat wave, air conditioners going everywhere, the grid totally maxed out. And in the extreme heat, some power lines expanded and sagged and shorted in Oregon, cascading failure. The entire west coast out of power, some places as long as a couple of days. Most west coast for 7 or 8 hours. On that day, my brother and sister-in-law were driving through the central valley of California with their AC on. They ran out of gas. So they pulled into a gas station and it was like – oh. And everybody’s sitting in the shade going like this, at the gas station. (14:19) And they’re like, what the hell’s going on. And well, your money machine card’s not working. The cash registers were locked closed. No one could buy a drink. No one could buy a gallon of gas.
AG: And the pumps that pump the gas of course isn’t working –
MS: Isn’t working. Right. So nothing was working. And it was 110 out that day. You could fry an egg in the sun on the pavement. And they’re stuck for 5 hours until the power came on. Imagine if you’re stuck for one day. Imagine this. Imagine you go out one night and you look up in the sky and you’re in South Carolina and you see a scene you’ve never seen before in your life. The sky is blood red – orange, gold streaks, shimmering. And it’s just awesome. And your view of the sky is so amazing because there’s no city lights. And it’s like wow, this is really amazing. And there’s no city lights that day. And you go try and get on your computer and there’s no internet signal, there’s no phone signals. And you think, wow. And then the next day goes by and it’s still lit up like this. In 1921, the sky was lit up from the North Pole to Hawaii and Puerto Rico and from the South Pole to American Samoa. So the only place the sky wasn’t lit up at night in the whole planet was a very narrow deep tropical zone right around the equator. And in 1921 that lasted for two nights and two days. And in 1859, there were two coronal mass ejections. So the first one hit the planet, got it spinning really, really hot electromagnetically speaking. And then just as things are starting to cool down, the second coronal mass ejection – a one-two punch – came and hit the planet and it got it electromagnetically charged up for another 5 days. So for a total of a week, the sky was jut lit up. People were waking up at 2 in the morning in Colorado in the back country and getting their gear ready, thinking was daybreak, that the sun had come up.
AG: I understand they could actually see that in Havana.
MS: In Havana. That’s right. So you’re talking – and then start your calendar going. It’s like oh, nuclear power plants are required to have a week’s worth of backup fuel on hand – because the grid’s never down for that long. Right? It just doesn’t happen. So here you’ve lost 370 transformers in the United States, a couple of thousand in the world. That’s 20 years of manufacturing capacity when the world’s working right. At today’s current capacity, we could replace those transformers in only 20 years. But most of the world that makes those transformers is going to be down just like us and struggling in mass chaos. So you’re talking 20 years at full capacity when the world’s working well to make those transformers to replace what fried in a single storm. So you’re talking a situation where things are down for a long time. So a week later, nuclear power plants start running out of backup fuel. Unless they manage to get the government and the military organized to guarantee fuel arriving to 104 nuclear power plants in the United States, you’re going to start to see Fukushima-like things happening. Maybe they’ll keep fuel running to some, but all 104? When there’s chaos, when (17:34) there’s hijackings, when nothing’s working, do you honestly think that trucks are going to just roll down the road with diesel fuel and provide all these power plants with fuel to keep them going? Now some of these reactor plant guys called me up and said, well, the NRC says that we’re mandated to have a week’s worth of fuel on hand but we have a month on hand. Okay, so you’ve got a month. You think the world’s going to be back together in a month? The EMP Commission estimates it’s going to be 6 to 9 months at the minimum and probably multiple years to get things back up and running in any decent way, shape or form. So you’re talking chaos and the world as we know it being very different for a long period of time. And if they’re not 100 percent successful at keeping these nuclear power plants going – and that’s in the event of a solar storm. See, in the event of an EMP, it’s a different worry. Because in the solar storm, the good news is that at least your control systems – digital control systems and things are probably still working. If you can get backup generators going and keep them powered, then you can probably maintain some control. Because it’s just the grid is down and the whole infrastructure with cascading failures over the next couple of weeks; everything will fall apart.
AG: So what that means is if a solar storm electromagnet pulse wipes everything between the big wires and the transformers, but the nuclear plant on the other side of the transformer doesn’t see the solar storm pulse in a solar EMP.
MS: We don’t know for sure because none of that stuff was around in 1921 when the last extreme solar event happened. But the scientists believe that your digital electronic stuff is mostly going to survive. They’re not saying there won’t be some pulses that are going to wipe out some digital stuff, but in general, that stuff is going to survive. What’s going to fry is these massive transformers that interconnect our grid; that keep the grid flowing. And those have caused – big grid failures in South Africa, caused power failures in the UK, power failures in Sweden, power failures in the United States and it caused the entire Province of Quebec to black out short term. But the problem is that when you lose so many of these transformers – not one or two but hundreds of transformers – then your interconnecting grid is going to collapse and pretty much shut down everywhere. And then they’ll be able to disconnect pieces of the grid and restart areas if they have lots of local power generation and if they’re not heavily densely populated and they survived without a lot of local damage from the solar storm. Then they’ll be able to disconnect and restart certain areas. But most of the heavily populated and industrialized parts of the country will have enough density in them in the modeling that those areas will suffer long-term collapse; not just like oh, everything went down for a few days and we were able to get them restarted in some places. So to be able to restart pieces of the country, but large zones of the country will have so much damage they won’t be able to restart.
AG: So the NRC’s relying on there being diesel deliveries in basically social mayhem to keep a nuclear plan running beyond the 7th day. (20:48)
MS: The NRC is relying on positive thinking. Wishful thinking. Their wishful thinking that it’s just not going to be that bad; that these guys are gloom-and-doomers and it’s just not going to be that bad.
AG: The best emergency planners in the world are the Japanese. They know that tsunamis happen; they know that earthquakes happen. And the emergency planning system in Japan failed miserably, horribly. So for us to rely on studies from the NRC telling me that don’t worry, we’ll get the diesel fuel to these nuclear plants once a week for the next 3 or 4 years until there’s no – we don’t have any concerns here – is really, really wishful thinking.
MS: Now that’s a solar storm.
AG: That’s a solar storm. That’s not in our control and it’s a one-in-eight decade kind of event. (21:50)
MS: Right, it’s a one-in-eight decade kind of event; its been nine decades since the last one. We’re living on borrowed time.
AG: So how do you live knowing all this stuff?
MS: People say, well, you seem like a cheerful guy. It’s like Mr. Gloom and Doom and yet you’re smiling. I basically do what I can. I feel like I’m here to serve in whatever way I can and I do my best. My motto that I like to end things on – I’ll just tell you right now because you asked me that question – my motto is, I ask everyone to do their best to change the world and do their best to be ready for the changes in the world. And so I’m doing my best to educate people and wake them up and I see that we have multiple challenges, that we’re collapsing our world – business as we know it are killing the planet, are destroying the natural systems that maintain life as we know it on Planet Earth and keep humans and mammals alive. And we also have this thing where we’ve created these systems that are highly susceptible Achilles’ heels to both EMP’s and solar storms. And so it’s kind of like rolling the dice, like what we’re doing is going to collapse the planet in the not-very-distant future if we keep it up the way we’re doing it. And we have these Achilles’ heels that could be an instantaneous collapse if we don’t do the right thing.
Now here’s the silly part. For the price of a single B2 bomber, they have invented these large vacuum tube devices and they tested them at the same – Curtis Brian Burtenbach – I think is his name, or Burnbach. And they have the biggest EMP testing facility in the world. They do a lot of testing for the DOD and he’s extremely worried about this. For good reason. He’s very worried about both EMP and solar storms. So they have invented a large vacuum tube device that reacts fast enough and can handle such huge amounts of power that it can almost instantaneously shunt power around these transformers into earth and protect them from both EMP and solar storms. So we can’t protect all of our electronics from an EMP. Most of our electronics won’t be affected by the solar storm if we can keep the grid up. So if we can at least keep the grid functioning, then we can keep pumps going, we can at least keep part of our world going, at least with manual stuff, even though a lot of the digital stuff will be gone. So it’ll be rough, but it’s doable.
So we could for 2 billion bucks, we could protect all of these massive transformers in the grid, and the grid from meltdown in the event of a solar storm or an EMP. And for another billion bucks or so, we could put (24:21) EMP-hardened containers with backup critical electronics, backup generators and store a year’s worth of fuel at each of our 104 nuclear reactors. So yes, it would be chaos. It would be rough even if we did the right thing. But it wouldn’t be the end of the world. But if we do the wrong thing, then either an EMP or solar storm could basically be – an EMP would be the end of America as we know it. And a solar storm would be the end of the world as we know it. But we could fix it.
AG: It reminds me of the tsunami at Fukushima. The tradition in Japan has seen tsunamis as high as 100 feet and certainly tsunamis as high as 30 feet. But in light of that, they built a tsunami wall that was only 15 feet high. So we have the opportunity to build our tsunami wall against solar detectors because we know it’s coming and it’s not going to break the bank. A couple of billion dollars is problem solved.
MS: And here’s the part of the other – it just kills me – is NERC – North American Electric Reliability Corporation – sounds like the good guys. It’s a private corporation from industry insiders in the electric utilities and they talk about protecting the grid and grid reliability. And then FERC which is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the federal government governing board that kind of follows everything and regulates stuff. So what happens? Well, NERC is kind of worried about the grid. They sponsor this conference and they look at threats to the grid and whether it’s from terrorists and digital threats – killer trees, various things, and they determine in this that the EMP’s and solar storms are the number 1 and 2 threats that could really be serious. They’re called black swan events. They happen now and then, not so often that you’re really worried, that you’re paying much attention to it, but when they happen they can be huge events. So they publish a report called the HILF report – High Impact Low Frequency Report. And they talk about these dangers. Now after that, in the government, they put the Shield Act in the Congress. And the Shield Act is saying that private industry is going to pony up 2 billion dollars out of their bottom line, out of their pocket and they’re going to fix the grid. Well, NERC goes wait a minute. That’s a lot of money for private industry. That’s a lot of money out of our bottom line. So what does NERC do? Well, they basically fire the guys that wrote the HILF report and said how dangerous this was. They come out with a new report that says everything’s okay; don’t worry, we’ve got it covered. And they tell the Congress. And they tell the Congress just what they want to hear and they say, oh, well, this is terrific, this is so wonderful. What new modeling did you do? What new scientific study and data did you take to do this? Oh, we didn’t do any new modeling. Well, what about the MetaTech Corporation study, the one that Sandia and Oakridge National Labs oversaw and sponsored and the National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security? What about that? And they said well, that’s proprietary computer code in the MetaTech study so we couldn’t really evaluate it. But we talked to our members and we decided we got it covered. Now I tell you, when three transformers blew in the 1989 event, which was 1/10th as strong as the 1921 event, which was 50 percent weaker than the 1859 event and yet they’re telling you they have it covered. (28:00) So then guess what they just did? In June, they published a standard. FERC – the Federal Regulatory Commission – came to NERC and said, could you please write us a safety standard or protocol for solar storms. So they said sure. So they wrote the standard and they got it passed and NERC rubber stamped it and the standard tells people what to do in the event of a solar storm. And the standard says every utility has to spend an average of 20 hours training somebody every year to make sure we implement the standard correctly. Now the standard doesn’t mandate that they put any hardware in, no current detectors to tell them how big the storm is and how dangerous it is to the grid. So they have no idea how to make a make-or-break decision, like is somebody just going to go in and shut down power to the eastern United States. And if they’re wrong, that’s the end of their career, for sure, if they’re wrong. And so – and yet – and how are they going to make that decision when they have no hardware implemented to tell them how serious the storm is? Plus, in 1989 in the first 30 seconds of the storm, 15 simultaneous hardware failures, including one of those massive transformers – in the first 30 seconds. What human being is going to go out and be able to make a decision in 30 seconds of that scale, of a massive scale, and make the right decision? It’s totally impossible.
AG: So we’ve got these satellites that are watching the sun. And the satellite sees this huge solar flare that likely is going to hit the earth, but maybe it’ll miss. And so the scientists go to the president and they say well, maybe this thing’s going to hit, maybe it’s going to miss. We need a presidential edict to shut the grid down anticipating that this thing will happen. Or, if it misses, we’ll all look like fools so let’s keep the grid going. That seems to be the only solution we’ve got in place right now.
MS: That’s correct. All we have now is you’re totally dependent upon – because let’s face it, no human being is going to make that decision on their own. And so in terms of a solar storm – a fast-moving solar storm can hit the planet in 12 hours. And the average solar storm is 2 to 3 days. So fast storms are 12 hours. One day, day and a half. Slow storms can hit as late as 5 days. But figure in general you’re going to have about 24 to 48 hours’ notice at most. And those are people watching the sun that are going to have to make those decisions, get to the right people, make massive decisions. And the chances that they’re really going to protect everybody are pretty slim.
AG: So you’ve written a couple of books about this topic. Can you let our listeners know what they might want to read.
MS: Sure. This book is my more recent book, called When Disaster Strikes. And it’s an emergency preparedness and survival manual. And people who read these kinds of things think it’s pretty much the best out there. And so this book has chapters specifically devoted to EMP and solar storm, survival chapters and prepping and strategies and what they are. This bigger book is my first book, the second edition widely expanded in 2008, of when technology fails. And this book, the subtitle describes it very well. It’s called The Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency. And so this book is kind of half eco green sustainability and half how you plan for and deal with varying levels of things falling apart in the world. So in my mind, if things really fell apart, I would much rather fall back on 18th Century technologies, live like Thomas Jefferson days or Abraham Lincoln days than go back to caveman days and eating worms and grubs and foraging for everything and living that kind of existence. It took me about a year to decide that maybe it was a good idea and maybe I could do it; another year to read a whole bunch of books and write a proposal and find a publisher; and then a third year to work 70 hours a week, 7 days a week. I only worked 6 hours on Sunday. I worked 12-hour days the rest of the week and 6 hours on Sunday and did that for 9 months to finish it off. And then I put another year into updating it in 2008. And it was like 50 percent bigger by word count. So this is my itty bitty big book and then the smaller book right here.
AG: All right. Well, thank you very much. I’m sure the people who listen to these videos (1) appreciate it; and (2) won’t sleep very well tonight.
MS: Well, again, I’ll just stress my motto one more time and that’s do your best to change the world and do your best to be ready for the changes in the world. And thank you, Arnie, it’s been a real pleasure being with you today.
AG: Glad you could come.
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400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, EMP and Nuclear Armageddon
There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more either under construction or in the planning stages. There are 104 of these reactors in the USA and 195 in Europe. Imagine what havoc it would wreak on our civilization and the planet’s ecosystems if we were to suddenly witness not just one or two nuclear melt-downs but 400 or more!
How likely is it that our world might experience an event that could ultimately cause hundreds of reactors to fail and melt down at approximately the same time? I venture to say that, unless we take significant protective measures, this apocalyptic scenario is not only possible but probable.
Consider the ongoing problems caused by three reactor core meltdowns, explosions, and breached containment vessels at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi facility, and the subsequent health and environmental issues. Consider the millions of innocent victims that have already died or continue to suffer from horrific radiation-related health problems (“Chernobyl AIDS”, epidemic cancers, chronic fatigue, etc) resulting from the Chernobyl reactor explosions, fires, and fallout. If just two serious nuclear disasters, spaced 25 years apart, could cause such horrendous environmental catastrophes, it is hard to imagine how we could ever hope to recover from hundreds of similar nuclear incidents occurring simultaneously across the planet. Since more than one third of all Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, this is a serious issue that should be given top priority![1]...
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