Report: America's Nuclear Plants Are Not Prepared For An EMP Attack

Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner: Feds fear EMP 'meltdown' of nuclear power plants

The federal government’s new focus on preventing disaster in a natural or terrorist electromagnetic pulse attack is drawing attention to a lack of testing and preparation at the nation’s nuclear power plants, where a resulting meltdown could cause radiation deaths.

ucked into the back of a new report from the Electromagnetic Defense Task Force compiled to highlight the EMP threat to U.S. infrastructure and military installations, the nation’s nuclear regulators admitted that the electric generating plants are not prepared for an attack.

What’s more, they don’t know how deadly an attack would be or how far the radioactive “plume” from a meltdown would extend and suggested instead that deaths would first come from an inability to find food and clean water.

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WNU Editor: I do not think any nuclear plant in the world is prepared for an emp attack. If the equipment that you use to cool your nuclear reactor core is disrupted because of an emp event, there will be a very real possibility of a meltdown. And why focus on a man made emp attacks. The sun has a history of ejecting solar flares that can disrupt electronics. What happens if there is a massive flare that is the equivalent of an emp attack. The report is here.