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US Power Grid Could Be Knocked Out By A Handful Of Substation Attacks, Says Report -- RT News
The entire US power grid could be shut down for more than a month if just nine of the over 55,000 electric substations placed throughout the nation were sabotaged by terrorists or other criminals, according to a new report.
A study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) found that just a handful of American substations provide much of the electricity that flows to large swaths of the country, sources familiar with the analysis told Rebecca Smith of the Wall Street Journal. Aside from nuclear power plants there are no federal rules requiring utilities to be protected.
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More News On Reports That The U.S. Power Grid Could Be Knocked-Out By Just A Few Targeted Attacks
A Few Attacks Could Knock Out U.S. Grid -- Defense Tech
Small-Scale Attacks Could Bring Down U.S. Power Grid, Report Says -- NPR
Small-scale power grid attack could cause nationwide blackout, study says -- FOX News
U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack -- Wall Street Journal
Report: U.S. Could Be Plunged Into Blackout By Minimal Attacks -- Time
America could be plunged into a nationwide blackout if just NINE of its thousands of power plants were attacked, report reveals -- Daily Mail
Report: U.S. Electric Grid ‘Inherently Vulnerable’ to Sabotage -- Washington Free Beacon
Electric-Grid Attack Fuels Sniper-Versus-Hacker Debate -- Bloomberg
My Comment: Forget about EMP explosions knocking out the U.S. power grid .... it appears that a few well placed bombs can accomplish the same thing.
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