EMP related - seeing the locations of the world's nuclear power reactors (previous post), it's obvious who is most vulnerable. According to EMP expert Dr. Peter Vincent Pry (ex-CIA), nuclear reactors have backup power to run their water coolant systems for approx 1 week. In the event of an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse), power grids that are not hardened against EMP will immediately stop working and the backup power systems going to nuclear reactors, assuming they still work, will only last 1 week. After that, these reactors will all overheat and melt down due to lack of coolant.
So imagine hundreds of Fukashima events. Pretty compelling argument for bailing out and heading to a remote place far away from nuclear reactors, preferably in the southern hemisphere (Coriolis effect).
Far more devastating than an EMP attack would be a solar event called a Carrington Event, an unusually strong eruption from the sun. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) happen all the time, but usually don't hit the earth, or if they do are not large enough to cause serious damage. One that did was in 1859, and if that happened today it would fry virtually every electronic device on earth. A Carrington size CME occurred in 2012 but fortunately missed the earth -
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