Government, Industry Studying Threat of Nuclear EMP Attack on Electric Grid

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American power companies are studying ways to protect electric grids against a high-altitude nuclear blast and other directed energy attacks that could severely disrupt electricity transmission, an industry representative told a Senate hearing Wednesday.

Scott Aaronson, managing director for cyber and infrastructure security at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), stated in testimony that a consortium of U.S. electric companies is working with the Energy Department to study how to protect power grids from a nuclear blast-produced electromagnetic pulse attack or solar flares that could damage transformers and other electric components and shut down power for millions of Americans.

“There are a lot of threats to the grid … from squirrels to nation states,” Aaronson said in testimony to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “And frankly, there have been more blackouts as a result of squirrels [gnawing wire insulation] than there are from nation states.”

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Smitty
Smitty
8 years ago

This will be used to piggyback the smartgrid. The elites want the smartgrid in the worst way.

Tom Angle
8 years ago

If there was an EMP attack on the US. Would not all the nuclear power plants go into meltdown? If so, that is 99 plants. Would that not be a death sentence for the whole world?

Rich
Rich
8 years ago

ICE Agent’s Suicide Note: Gov’t. to Disarm the Population, Herd Americans Into Camps
The note outlines why the officer chose to shoot himself: “The America I grew up in, and cherished, has been murdered by its own federal government. Our Constitution has become meaningless and our laws politicized so badly, they are no longer enforced except for political purposes” the note said. “Our elected officials are, to a person, utterly corrupt and completely devoid of any love or respect for the country which pays them. To them, everything is about getting and keeping power, and making illicit money from backroom deals.”
There is much more to the suicide note and SuperStation95 is considering how much more to publish.
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news512.htm