EMPs are one of those things that many people think is fake, or over-blown, or a conspiracy theorist’s dream. But they are real. EMPs can be either natural, from things like extreme solar geomagnetic disturbances, or man-made like a large thermonuclear detonation or a cyberattack. If they are coordinated with physical attacks then things can get real dicey real fast.
As the U.S. Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack points out, “the physical and social fabric of the United States is sustained by a system of systems – a complex and dynamic network of interlocking and interdependent infrastructures whose harmonious functioning enables the myriad actions, transactions, and information flow that undergird the orderly conduct of civil society.”
According to the Commission, EMP effects represent arguably the largest-scale common-cause failure events that could affect our electric power grid and undermine our society, leaving it vulnerable on many fronts. High-voltage control cables and large transformers that control the grid are particularly vulnerable. Transformers weigh 400 tons, take two years to build, and cost $7 million apiece. We are already way behind in having backup transformers ready, so if many go out at once, we have a big problem powering our country.
So can we do anything about it?
The phenomenon of a large electromagnetic pulse is not new. The first human-caused EMP occurred in 1962 when the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime thermonuclear weapon detonated 400 km above the Pacific Ocean.
One hundred times bigger than what we dropped on Hiroshima, Starfish Prime resulted in an EMP which caused electrical damage nearly 900 miles away in Hawaii. It knocked out about 300 streetlights, set off numerous burglar alarms, and damaged a telephone company microwave link that shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.
And that was from 900 miles away.
On the natural side, in 1989, an unexpected geomagnetic storm triggered an event on the Hydro-Québec power system that resulted in its complete collapse within 92 seconds, leaving six million customers without power. The storm resulted from the Sun ejecting a trillion-cubic-mile plume of superheated plasma, or ionized gas.
It took two days for this cloud to smash into the Earth’s magnetosphere overwhelming its normal ability to throw off charged cosmic particles, triggering hundreds of incidents across the globe and causing undulating, multicolored auroras to spread as far south as Texas and Cuba.
Such storms occur every 60 years or so, and in 1989, we weren’t anywhere near as electrified and electronically interconnected as we are today, or as we will be in 30 years.
This is the most likely EMP to occur.
A new 2018 study by the U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Defense Task Force addresses direct EMP threats to the United States and its allies. While some issues have existed for decades, the window of opportunity to mitigate some of these threats is closing. Meanwhile, many existing threats have gained prominence because of the almost universal integration of vulnerable silica-based technologies into all aspects of modern technology and society.
In 2008, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack made a compelling case for protecting critical infrastructures against EMP and solar geomagnetic disturbances. To avert long term outages, the U.S. must assure the availability of survivable power sources with long-term, readily accessible and continuous fuel supplies to blackstart the grid, sustain emergency life-support services, and reconstitute local, state, and national infrastructures. Long term outages are defined as the interruption of electricity for months to years over large geographic regions.
Protection of electric power plants, and upgrading our infrastructure, will be essential in preventing long term outages and in restarting portions of the grid that have failed in the face of wide-area threats.
It would be good at this point to understand some of the technical steps to an EMP. The first pulse occurs when gamma rays emanating from the burst interact with the Earth’s atmosphere and eject electrons that stream down the Earth’s magnetic field to generate an incredibly fast electromagnetic pulse within about a billionth of a second after the burst. That pulse peaks around 50,000 V/m on the Earth’s surface.
This first pulse is of the most concern because of its high amplitude and wide bandwidth, allowing it to inject significant energy into conductors as short as twelve inches. Fortunately, this pulse only lasts a millionth of a second, but still time to wreak havoc.
Another pulse occurs just after this, resulting from a second set of gammas produced by energetic neutrons. The peak fields are much lower, about 100 V/m and last less than a second.
The final pulse is a wave similar in nature to naturally-occurring geomagnetic storms associated with coronal mass ejections from the Sun’s surface. These are low frequency, low amplitude pulses that lasts from minutes to hours. Although this may appear to be less intense, these can cause direct damage to equipment connected to long electrical lines, and can damage transformers, uninterruptible power supplies and generators.
Fortunately, the same protection devices we have developed to withstand natural solar events will work with this third pulse. So new protection strategies need to focus on the first two short pulses.
Nuclear power plants have a special place in any strategy because of perceived threats of meltdowns of the core and of nuclear fuel pools, as well as from public concern over all things nuclear. But in addition, nuclear plants could be the most likely power generators to restart quickest after a pulse and would be the baseload power that could keep critical parts of society operating.
At present, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has no regulatory framework to address the EMP risk to nuclear power stations, although NRC is currently working to create new fuel storage standards and most nuclear plants are EMP-hardening their back-up generators.
So while there are differing opinions as to the direct threat of an EMP to a nuclear power plant, it is generally agreed that the threat should not be ignored.
So NuScale didn’t ignore it, and set about to actively deter EMP effects in the design of their new small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). NuScale’s SMR is already the most resilient, reliable and flexible of any energy source in history, with Black-Start Capability, Island Mode and First Responder Power, without needing external grid connections, capable of withstanding earthquakes, category 5 hurricanes and F5 tornados, planes crashing into it, floods, and cyberattacks. Now it has added EMP threats and geomagnetic disturbances.
Fortunately, NuScale is the first SMR company to file a license and design certification application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and it is the first one to have the NRC complete their Phase 1 review – in record time. So the first unit should roll out in only a few years.
NuScale evaluated support systems of their SMR as either likely vulnerable or inherently resilient to an EMP. The evaluation involved a qualitative vulnerability assessment of above and below ground subsystems, including communications, controls, switches, transformers and machinery within the SMR with special attention to the nuclear plant’s ability to safely shut down and the potential to provide continuous power during and after exposure to an EMP pulse.
Several design features allow the SMR to withstand an EMP attack. There are no safety-related electrical loads, including pumps and electric motor-operated safety valves. Because natural convective core heat removal is used, electrically-operated pumps are not needed to circulate coolant. This means that, if necessary, the reactor can shut down and cool itself for indefinite periods without the need for human intervention, adding water, or external electrical power. So the inherent safety of the reactor is impervious to an EMP and can’t melt-down due to an event.
But just being safe isn’t good enough. It would be great to be able to start up right away or, better yet, keep operating right through the event, so that power is available to mitigate, recover and respond to the worst of attack.
The SMR can go into Island Mode operation, not requiring a connection to the grid to provide electrical power, and allowing for a rapid recovery to full power following the event. The reactor modules can keep safely running and go into stand-by mode
such that they can be rapidly put back into service.
Also, safety-related systems are electrically-isolated from the main plant electrical system, and all sensor cables penetrate the reactor containment vessel at a single location (containment vessel top plate), thereby reducing the EMP pathway.
In addition, the reactor building provides effective electric shielding of EMPs by being several-foot thick concrete walls laced with steel rebar, effectively making it into a Faraday Cage, which is an enclosure or structure that can block an electromagnetic field.
Electrical conducting lines are underground, which significantly attenuates the first burst effects. NuScale uses redundant fiber optic cable for communication links, which are immune to EMP effects.
The NuScale plants feature multiple reactors, multiple turbine generators, an Auxiliary AC Power Source (AAPS), two 2MW backup diesel generators for blackstarting the plant, multiple main power transformers (MPTs) and unit auxiliary transformers (UATs), and redundant backup battery banks. Such redundancy is essential for addressing these complex threats.
The design also provides good grounding practices, lightning protection systems, surge arrestors for connections to the switchyard, delta-wye transformers, and circumferentially-bonded stainless-steel piping.
So new nuclear plants are able to be designed, and old ones upgraded, to withstand EMPs better than most energy systems. Their inherent isolation from the rest of the world is similar to why they can so effectively withstand cyberattacks.
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EMPs are among those things that many individuals believe is phony, or over-blown, or a conspiracy theorist’s dream. However they are genuine. EMPs can be either natural, from things like severe solar geomagnetic disruptions, or manufactured like a big atomic detonation or a cyberattack. If they are collaborated with physical attacks then things can get genuine dicey genuine quick.
As the U.S. Commission to Examine the Danger to the United States from EMP Attack explains, “the physical and social material of the United States is sustained by a system of systems – a complex and vibrant network of interlocking and synergistic facilities whose unified operating makes it possible for the myriad actions, deals, and details circulation that supported the organized conduct of civil society.”
According to the Commission, EMP impacts represent probably the largest-scale common-cause failure occasions that might impact our electrical power grid and weaken our society, leaving it susceptible on numerous fronts. High-voltage control cable televisions and big transformers that manage the grid are especially susceptible. Transformers weigh 400 lots, take 2 years to develop, and cost $7 million each. We are currently method behind in having backup transformers all set, so if numerous head out simultaneously, we have a huge issue powering our nation.
(* )So can we do anything about it?
The phenomenon of a big electro-magnetic pulse is not brand-new. The very first human-caused EMP took place in 1962 when the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime atomic weapon detonated 400 km above the Pacific Ocean.
One hundred times larger than what we dropped on Hiroshima, Starfish Prime led to an EMP which triggered electrical damage almost 900 miles away in Hawaii. It knocked out about 300 streetlights, triggered many alarm system, and harmed a telephone business microwave link that closed down phone conversation from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.
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On the natural side, in1989, an unanticipated geomagnetic storm set off an occasion on the Hydro-Québec power system that led to its total collapse within 92 seconds, leaving 6 million clients without power. The storm arised from the Sun ejecting a trillion-cubic-mile plume of superheated plasma, or ionized gas.
It took 2 days for this cloud to smash into the Earth’s magnetosphere frustrating its regular capability to shake off charged cosmic particles, setting off numerous occurrences around the world and triggering undulating, various colored auroras to spread out as far south as Texas and Cuba.
Such storms happen every 60 years or two, and in 1989, we weren’t anywhere near as amazed and digitally adjoined as we are today, or as we will remain in 30 years.
This is the most likely EMP to happen.
A brand-new 2018 research study by the U.S. Flying Force Electromagnetic Defense Job Force addresses direct EMP dangers to the United States and its allies. While some problems have actually existed for years, the window of chance to reduce a few of these dangers is closing. On the other hand, numerous existing dangers have actually gotten prominence due to the fact that of the nearly universal combination of susceptible silica-based innovations into all elements of contemporary innovation and society.
In 2008, the Commission to Examine the Danger to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack made an engaging case for safeguarding crucial facilities versus EMP and solar geomagnetic disruptions. To avoid long term interruptions, the U.S. needs to guarantee the accessibility of survivable source of power with long-lasting, easily available and constant fuel materials to blackstart the grid, sustain emergency situation life-support services, and reconstitute regional, state, and nationwide facilities. Long term interruptions are specified as the disruption of electrical power for months to years over big geographical areas.
Defense of electrical power plants, and updating our facilities, will be vital in avoiding long term interruptions and in rebooting parts of the grid that have actually stopped working in the face of wide-area dangers.
It would be proficient at this indicate comprehend a few of the technical actions to an EMP. The very first pulse happens when gamma rays originating from the burst engage with the Earth’s environment and eject electrons that stream down the Earth’s electromagnetic field to create an extremely quick electro-magnetic pulse within about a billionth of a 2nd after the burst. That pulse peaks around 50,000 V/m on the Earth’s surface area.
This very first pulse is of the most issue due to the fact that of its high amplitude and large bandwidth, enabling it to inject considerable energy into conductors as brief as twelve inches. Thankfully, this pulse just lasts a millionth of a 2nd, however still time to create chaos.
Another pulse happens simply after this, arising from a 2nd set of gammas produced by energetic neutrons. The peak fields are much lower, about 100 V/m and last less than a 2nd.
The last pulse is a wave comparable in nature to naturally-occurring geomagnetic storms related to coronal mass ejections from the Sun’s surface area. These are radio frequency, low amplitude pulses that lasts from minutes to hours. Although this might seem less extreme, these can trigger direct damage to devices linked to long electrical lines, and can harm transformers, uninterruptible power materials and generators.
Thankfully, the exact same defense gadgets we have actually established to endure natural solar occasions will deal with this 3rd pulse. So brand-new defense methods require to concentrate on the very first 2 brief pulses.
Nuclear reactor have an unique location in any technique due to the fact that of viewed dangers of crises of the core and of nuclear fuel swimming pools, in addition to from public issue over all things nuclear. However in addition, nuclear plants might be the most likely power generators to reboot quickest after a pulse and would be the baseload power that might keep crucial parts of society operating.
At present, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has no regulative structure to attend to the EMP danger to nuclear power stations, although NRC is presently working to develop brand-new fuel storage requirements and a lot of nuclear plants are EMP-hardening their back-up generators.
So while there are varying viewpoints regarding the direct risk of an EMP to a nuclear reactor, it is usually concurred that the risk must not be disregarded.
So NuScale didn’t neglect it, and gone about to actively hinder EMP impacts in the style of their brand-new little modular atomic power plant (SMR). NuScale’s SMR is currently the most durable, dependable and versatile of any energy source in history, with Black-Start Ability, Island Mode and First Responder Power, without requiring external grid connections, efficient in holding up against earthquakes, classification 5 typhoons and F5 twisters, airplanes crashing into it, floods, and cyberattacks. Now it has actually included EMP dangers and geomagnetic disruptions.
Thankfully, NuScale is the very first SMR business to submit a license and style accreditation application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and it is the very first one to have the NRC finish their Stage 1 evaluation– in record time. So the very first system must present in just a few years.
NuScale assessed support group of their SMR as either most likely susceptible or naturally durable to an EMP. The assessment included a qualitative vulnerability evaluation of above and listed below ground subsystems, consisting of interactions, controls, switches, transformers and equipment within the SMR with unique attention to the nuclear plant’s capability to securely close down and the prospective to supply constant power throughout and after direct exposure to an EMP pulse.
Numerous style functions enable the SMR to endure an EMP attack. There are no safety-related electrical loads, consisting of pumps and electrical motor-operated security valves. Due to the fact that natural convective core heat elimination is utilized, electrically-operated pumps are not required to distribute coolant. This suggests that, if essential, the reactor can close down and cool itself for indefinite durations without the requirement for human intervention, including water, or external electrical power. So the intrinsic security of the reactor is invulnerable to an EMP and can’t melt-down due to an occasion.
However simply being safe isn’t sufficient. It would be terrific to be able to launch immediately or, even better, keep running right through the occasion, so that power is offered to reduce, recuperate and react to the worst of attack.
The SMR can enter into Island Mode operation, not needing a connection to the grid to supply electrical power, and enabling a fast healing to complete power following the occasion. The reactor modules can keep securely running and enter into stand-by mode
such that they can be quickly returned into service.
Likewise, safety-related systems are electrically-isolated from the primary plant electrical system, and all sensing unit cable televisions permeate the reactor containment vessel at a single area (containment vessel leading plate), consequently minimizing the EMP path.
In addition, the reactor structure offers reliable electrical protecting of EMPs by being several-foot thick concrete walls laced with steel rebar, efficiently making it into a Faraday Cage, which is an enclosure or structure that can obstruct an electro-magnetic field
Electrical conducting lines are underground, which substantially attenuates the very first burst impacts. NuScale utilizes redundant fiber optic cable television for interaction links, which are unsusceptible to EMP impacts.
The NuScale plants include several reactors, several turbine generators, an Auxiliary A/C Source Of Power (AAPS), 2 2MW backup diesel generators for blackstarting the plant, several primary power transformers (MPTs) and system auxiliary transformers (UATs), and redundant backup battery banks. Such redundancy is vital for resolving these complicated dangers.
The style likewise offers great grounding practices, lightning defense systems, rise arrestors for connections to the switchyard, delta-wye transformers, and circumferentially-bonded stainless-steel piping.
So brand-new nuclear plants have the ability to be developed, and old ones updated, to endure EMPs much better than a lot of energy systems. Their intrinsic seclusion from the remainder of the world resembles why they can so efficiently endure cyberattacks
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Yes. Particularly, the little modular atomic power plant business, NuScale, out of Oregon, has actually made their reactor resistant to electro-magnetic pulses (EMP) and most other reactor styles must follow.
EMPs are among those things that many individuals believe is phony, or over-blown, or a conspiracy theorist’s dream. However they are genuine. EMPs can be either natural, from things like severe solar geomagnetic disruptions, or manufactured like a big atomic detonation or a cyberattack. If they are collaborated with physical attacks then things can get genuine dicey genuine quick.
As the U.S. Commission to Examine the Danger to the United States from EMP Attack explains, “the physical and social material of the United States is sustained by a system of systems – a complex and vibrant network of interlocking and synergistic facilities whose unified operating makes it possible for the myriad actions, deals, and details circulation that supported the organized conduct of civil society.”
According to the Commission, EMP impacts represent probably the largest-scale common-cause failure occasions that might impact our electrical power grid and weaken our society, leaving it susceptible on numerous fronts. High-voltage control cable televisions and big transformers that manage the grid are especially susceptible. Transformers weigh 400 lots, take 2 years to develop, and cost $ 7 million each. We are currently method behind in having backup transformers all set, so if numerous head out simultaneously, we have a huge issue powering our nation.
So can we do anything about it?
The phenomenon of a big electro-magnetic pulse is not brand-new. The very first human-caused EMP took place in 1962 when the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime atomic weapon detonated 400 km above the Pacific Ocean.
One hundred times larger than what we dropped on Hiroshima, Starfish Prime led to an EMP which triggered electrical damage almost 900 miles away in Hawaii. It knocked out about 300 streetlights, triggered many alarm system, and harmed a telephone business microwave link that closed down phone conversation from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.
Which was from 900 miles away.
On the natural side, in 1989, an unanticipated geomagnetic storm set off an occasion on the Hydro-Québec power system that led to its total collapse within 92 seconds, leaving 6 million clients without power. The storm arised from the Sun ejecting a trillion-cubic-mile plume of superheated plasma, or ionized gas.
It took 2 days for this cloud to smash into the Earth’s magnetosphere frustrating its regular capability to shake off charged cosmic particles, setting off numerous occurrences around the world and triggering undulating, various colored auroras to spread out as far south as Texas and Cuba.
Such storms happen every 60 years or two, and in 1989, we weren’t anywhere near as amazed and digitally adjoined as we are today, or as we will remain in 30 years.
This is the most likely EMP to happen.
A brand-new 2018 research study by the U.S. Flying Force Electromagnetic Defense Job Force addresses direct EMP dangers to the United States and its allies. While some problems have actually existed for years, the window of chance to reduce a few of these dangers is closing. On the other hand, numerous existing dangers have actually gotten prominence due to the fact that of the nearly universal combination of susceptible silica-based innovations into all elements of contemporary innovation and society.
In 2008, the Commission to Examine the Danger to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack made an engaging case for safeguarding crucial facilities versus EMP and solar geomagnetic disruptions. To avoid long term interruptions, the U.S. needs to guarantee the accessibility of survivable source of power with long-lasting, easily available and constant fuel materials to blackstart the grid, sustain emergency situation life-support services, and reconstitute regional, state, and nationwide facilities. Long term interruptions are specified as the disruption of electrical power for months to years over big geographical areas.
Defense of electrical power plants, and updating our facilities, will be vital in avoiding long term interruptions and in rebooting parts of the grid that have actually stopped working in the face of wide-area dangers.
It would be proficient at this indicate comprehend a few of the technical actions to an EMP. The very first pulse happens when gamma rays originating from the burst engage with the Earth’s environment and eject electrons that stream down the Earth’s electromagnetic field to create an extremely quick electro-magnetic pulse within about a billionth of a 2nd after the burst. That pulse peaks around 50, 000 V/m on the Earth’s surface area.
This very first pulse is of the most issue due to the fact that of its high amplitude and large bandwidth, enabling it to inject considerable energy into conductors as brief as twelve inches. Thankfully, this pulse just lasts a millionth of a 2nd, however still time to create chaos.
Another pulse happens simply after this, arising from a 2nd set of gammas produced by energetic neutrons. The peak fields are much lower, about 100 V/m and last less than a 2nd.
The last pulse is a wave comparable in nature to naturally-occurring geomagnetic storms related to coronal mass ejections from the Sun’s surface area. These are radio frequency, low amplitude pulses that lasts from minutes to hours. Although this might seem less extreme, these can trigger direct damage to devices linked to long electrical lines, and can harm transformers, uninterruptible power materials and generators.
Thankfully, the exact same defense gadgets we have actually established to endure natural solar occasions will deal with this 3rd pulse. So brand-new defense methods require to concentrate on the very first 2 brief pulses.
Nuclear reactor have an unique location in any technique due to the fact that of viewed dangers of crises of the core and of nuclear fuel swimming pools, in addition to from public issue over all things nuclear. However in addition, nuclear plants might be the most likely power generators to reboot quickest after a pulse and would be the baseload power that might keep crucial parts of society operating.
At present, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has no regulative structure to attend to the EMP danger to nuclear power stations, although NRC is presently working to develop brand-new fuel storage requirements and a lot of nuclear plants are EMP-hardening their back-up generators.
So while there are varying viewpoints regarding the direct risk of an EMP to a nuclear reactor, it is usually concurred that the risk must not be disregarded.
So NuScale didn’t neglect it, and gone about to actively hinder EMP impacts in the style of their brand-new little modular atomic power plant (SMR). NuScale’s SMR is currently the most durable , dependable and versatile of any energy source in history, with Black-Start Ability, Island Mode and First Responder Power, without requiring external grid connections, efficient in holding up against earthquakes, classification 5 typhoons and F5 twisters, airplanes crashing into it, floods, and cyberattacks. Now it has actually included EMP dangers and geomagnetic disruptions.
Thankfully, NuScale is the very first SMR business to submit a license and style accreditation application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission , and it is the very first one to have the NRC finish their Stage 1 evaluation– in record time. So the very first system must present in just a few years.
NuScale assessed support group of their SMR as either most likely susceptible or naturally durable to an EMP. The assessment included a qualitative vulnerability evaluation of above and listed below ground subsystems, consisting of interactions, controls, switches, transformers and equipment within the SMR with unique attention to the nuclear plant’s capability to securely close down and the prospective to supply constant power throughout and after direct exposure to an EMP pulse.
Numerous style functions enable the SMR to endure an EMP attack. There are no safety-related electrical loads, consisting of pumps and electrical motor-operated security valves. Due to the fact that natural convective core heat elimination is utilized, electrically-operated pumps are not required to distribute coolant. This suggests that, if essential, the reactor can close down and cool itself for indefinite durations without the requirement for human intervention, including water, or external electrical power. So the intrinsic security of the reactor is invulnerable to an EMP and can’t melt-down due to an occasion.
However simply being safe isn’t sufficient. It would be terrific to be able to launch immediately or, even better, keep running right through the occasion, so that power is offered to reduce, recuperate and react to the worst of attack.
The SMR can enter into Island Mode operation, not needing a connection to the grid to supply electrical power, and enabling a fast healing to complete power following the occasion. The reactor modules can keep securely running and enter into stand-by mode
such that they can be quickly returned into service.
Likewise, safety-related systems are electrically-isolated from the primary plant electrical system, and all sensing unit cable televisions permeate the reactor containment vessel at a single area (containment vessel leading plate), consequently minimizing the EMP path.
In addition, the reactor structure offers reliable electrical protecting of EMPs by being several-foot thick concrete walls laced with steel rebar, efficiently making it into a Faraday Cage , which is an enclosure or structure that can obstruct an electro-magnetic field
.
Electrical conducting lines are underground, which substantially attenuates the very first burst impacts. NuScale utilizes redundant fiber optic cable television for interaction links, which are unsusceptible to EMP impacts.
The NuScale plants include several reactors, several turbine generators, an Auxiliary A/C Source Of Power (AAPS), 2 2MW backup diesel generators for blackstarting the plant, several primary power transformers (MPTs) and system auxiliary transformers (UATs), and redundant backup battery banks. Such redundancy is vital for resolving these complicated dangers.
The style likewise offers great grounding practices, lightning defense systems, rise arrestors for connections to the switchyard, delta-wye transformers, and circumferentially-bonded stainless-steel piping.
So brand-new nuclear plants have the ability to be developed, and old ones updated, to endure EMPs much better than a lot of energy systems. Their intrinsic seclusion from the remainder of the world resembles why they can so efficiently endure cyberattacks
.
