Reuters reports that South Korean military officials are claiming that North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
Japan also said the projectile was a short-range ballistic missile. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said North Korea’s recent development in nuclear missile-related technology and repeated launches of ballistic missiles threatened the region and the international community.
“This is absolutely unacceptable,” he told reporters, adding that Japan will continue to “strengthen defense capabilities drastically” to protect its citizens from such security threats, in close cooperation with the United States, South Korea, and other allies.
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Russia and North Korea have launched ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads this week. If you do not understand what this means, I suggest you read (or reread) Dr. Forstchen’s novel, One Second After.
David DeGerolamo
Will the nuclear power plants shut down after and EMP or will they melt down? I have always wondered and no one has ever told me a definite yes or no.
I worked as an electrical engineer in construction of nuclear power plants for 5 years. If a plant loses power, the reactor will automatically shut down and there is no danger of a leak or explosion.
Thanks
If any thing can go wrong, it will, Murphy’s law.
Unless the circuit board has been compromised . The coolant functions are controlled by micro-processer made in China , Heh .
No power. The rods drop into coolant and the reaction is shut down.
But aren’t those fuel 2200F and it takes like 3 years to cool them down for dry storage. still got to have flow of water to cool them down. Fukushima went through a disaster very similar except the sea water flooded the diesel engines and this took out the ability to cool the fuel rods down. All these reactors use the principle of boiling water into steam to drive a turbine then that steam gets condensed and reused over and over. If the emergency shutdown occurs on time good deal but the rods still have to have a continuous flow of water to bring the rod down to a safe region of heat to remove,
Maybe North Korea and D.C. will decapitate each other. We can only hope.