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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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Military and non-proliferation experts are worried about the growing temptation by nuclear-armed countries to engage in a first-strike EMP attack using nuclear weapons that, while avoiding direct casualties, could prove devastating to electric grids and electronic devices from smartwatches to supercomputers. See the illustration, below.).

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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