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In case you didn't have enuf 2 worry about...
sleek:
Well, you would know that wouldnt you? Lol Id be a fool to argue. Im gonna keep an eye out and rethink my emergecy vehical of choice.... though its usefulness may be very limited. You do make yourself a target with one that works. But i guess later on after things have settled down, it would be useful.
Eric Krewson:
Unless you are very lucky, travel by night away from the roads and have superb survival skills, the roving gangs of cannibals will have you roasting on a spit in short order.
Read the book "1 Second After" for a perspective. The author did a pretty good job of putting an EMP attack in perspective except he left out one thing; the 113 operating nuclear plants in the US which would all go critical and kill every living thing on the planet.
sleek:
They cant go critical in the way most think. They dont blow up. Not enough fuel mass to allow that. I remember reading a study on that. The actual term critical means its a self sustaining reaction. Thats needed for them to operate. Every functioning reactor in the world is critical right now. I think the term is super critical and again, not enough fuel mass in them to allow that.
Eric Krewson:
I worked in the power industry, I was in fossil, about half my buddies transferred to nukes.
Think Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island, multiply that by 113, no cooling water and off they go, any questions?
Every effort in the world was focused on containing the aforementioned disasters. If the same thing happens after an EMP attack there will be no resources to make any effort to contain the fog of radiation that will spew from these reactors after they go critical and melt down.
mullet:
Like Eric said once meltdown starts it will keep going deeper until it hits the water table and then start spewwing radioactive steam into the atmosphere.
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