Dangers: President Obama claims there's "no greater threat" than global warming. But a new report says the real threat comes from solar storms, or worse, an electromagnetic-pulse attack from a foreign enemy like Iran.
While the administration cracks down on "carbon polluters," it's done virtually nothing to protect the nation from the techno-apocalypse that could result from space weather or an EMP weapon.
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Either event could fry the copper windings in electrical transformers and knock out power grids long enough to send nuclear reactors into meltdown, warns a forthcoming report — "Electromagnetic Pulse and Space Weather and the Strategic Threat to America's Nuclear Power Stations" — by the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, an independent think tank.
"After exhaustive research on this topic we found that in the wake of an EMP or space weather event, the U.S. — home to 99 nuclear stations and 31 research reactors — faces simultaneous meltdown of these facilities, in some scenarios, in as little as 30 minutes," ALPF Chairman David Stuckenberg told IBD.
"Due to the present safety infrastructure, most plants will have seven days until core meltdown from a lack of power and essential cooling functions," Stuckenberg added.
The alarming study, which will be published in the Harvard National Security Journal later this month, found that the assumptions used to inform Washington leaders that nuclear power is safe from EMP and space weather effects are dead wrong.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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