solar storms to turn every nuke plant into a fukushima?

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actually, i just read from an electrical engineer that this could happen.

somewhere lost in translation here is that solar storms are a double digit volts per kilometer event.. if you don't know what that means, sorry.

no less than about 7 orders of magnitude less than what an atomic bomb can do, on the order of 15-18 orders of magnitude if you include the rise time, kilovolts per meter per nanosecond.. vs volts per kilometer per second.

now if you're saying a nuclear powerplant can turn into an epic disaster if it simply loses grid power, then that's obviously a problem.

Sure it could happen, but at the same time the reactor's electronics would have to be unshielded, which they are shielded so they can be around the reactor. Further, many of the circuits are likely rad hardened, meaning they aren't as vulnerable to EMP, and radiation.

I am an electrical engineer, and I say it couldn't.

So there!