Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is a concept that most survivalists know about, but in reality, only a few realize how serious it would be and even less understand how fundamentally it would change our lives.
Fewer than that realize exactly how likely it is to happen at some point – either naturally or because of a man-made event – deliberate or accidental.
The reality is that between the Sun, our enemies trying to cripple us and other natural causes of localized EMP's, sooner or later, at least our power supplies will be affected and very few electric companies are set to deal with it.
So if some sort of EMP is likely or even inevitable, what should you be prepared to do immediately after.
On the next page, we cover the basics.
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Every nuke fired will produce an emp. Thus if you are near a potential nuclear target the emp effects may be the strongest in or near your area (even if far enough way to survive the blast, thermals)
Also it is believed that an emp in center of main 48 (middle of Kansas state, or there abouts. I believe Kansas city is largest cit in Kansas, though it is on border of the state, I believe it is close enough to take down the grid as well as do maximum emp damage to and around a major city.
Articles I read state 300 miles up would be required to take out the grid with one nuke. At this height their will be little-no other damage from thermals, blast, and radiative fallout.
From an emp shadowing can occur as the energy will travel much like light. Thus if your home is in “the shadow” of a large building the emp may hit your house to a lesser degree than your neighbors . as well dirt will offer a loss of “line of sight” from the emp as well as grounding.
Thus equipment both inside and outside of Faraday cages are more likely to be in working order if in a room below ground or buried underground in a water tight container.
Underground emp energy can still travel along electrical lines (even if is blocked from traveling through the air) thus plugged in appliances will likely be fried. (Even if in underground room) Though surge protectors and a whole home surge protector would help protect is the emp is weak enough by time it reaches you.
For places underground and offgrid these will be much more protected. Basic idea longer the wire stronger the pulse on plugged in items. a grid network is very long amount of wire.
Wire in and Comming off solar panels is much less but it may still cause some damage if not prepared for possibility of a surge
Avoid grounding wire on Faraday cages. It may seem like a good idea to some but a Faraday cage is not connected to an outlet. The electrical it will pick up will be from the emp particles in the air, which will be drawn to both the metal box AND the grounding wire. And thus your “grounding wire” just became a hot wire adding more electricity against your Faraday cage
Man your not kidding everything goes and most of Americas military and Navy Air Force Army would be useless…
one thing that is always forgotten in an emp situation. your local nucular reactor. were talking uncontrolled nuclear meltdown after their emergency power goes down. also the exposed used nuclear fuel after the cooling ponds boil off. and no equipment thanks to the emp to secure the facility. Chernobyl and fukashima reactors would be nothing compaired to this.
That and the fact that the only theorized EMP’s come from a nuclear strike and if you are close enough to experience one the other will surely kill you.
Effective EMP strike would come from a high attitude nuclear detonation. would only need three to take out the US one over the east coast, west coast, and gulf of Mexico. Also would happen so fast by the time the military recognizes the launch, it’s to late. Most military and government equipment and bases are no hardened from an EMP. in a year 90% of us would be dead.
Best book I’ve read about and EMP. Great read. Author thought of everything and not a real happy ending. It made me reconsider some of my preps and step up on others.
Get real… 9 out of every 10 people will be dead within 1 year.
I lived without electricity, phone or running water under extreme winter conditions and it was the best time of my life.
After EMP cash will not become worthless but banks will be down as well as ATMs and you will be limited to the amount of cash in your pocket or in your gun safe. It’s best to have lots of small bills as opposed to a few large bills. No one will be able or willing to change large bills except for large purchases. Same for gold or silver coins. Who the heck is going to have change for a one ounce gold coin? US nickles currently have a melt down value of 5 cents. If cash devalues then nickles will maintain a higher melt-down value than face value and could become more valuable than quarters. Rolls of nickles can be purchased now at any bank for face value and set aside as barter items. You won’t have to melt down nickles (it’s illegal) but each nickle contains a known quantity of nickle and copper so it already comes in a measured amount and is recognized for that value.
I have food and beverages for 10 days at all times.
Meltdown accures when the cooling system fails and active fission reactions continue and cause melting of the containment vessel.
Which unless you had power to continue the fission reactions this would stop along side the cooling system.
If the fission reaction however did continue then you would maintain a source of power and could then do repairs and start up the cooling system again.
Or you could flood the core utilizing the resivoir of water position above the reactor which allows its use in an emergency situation even without power.
after emp you will not have water pressure to supply the plant. you have to worry about water supply to the reactor and the used fuel comtainment pools outside the reactor. unless the water reservoir is gravity feed. it is useless because it relies on non hardends facilitues off plant.
http://www.decodedscience.org/after-an-emp-event-can-a-nuclear-plant-shutdown-safely/10030
Just finished reading One Second After, great book. If you want to know what humanity will look like after an EMP, read it. It won’t be pretty.
If power gets turned off in a reactor, lead walls fall and there is no more reaction. So your point is pretty much moot. Not saying that this couldn’t happen though if the walls didn’t drop.
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It’s not that good of a book. Water gas engines could save a lot o stuff
spent fuel rod storage is not in the reactor and arein seperate facilities. and still able to meltdown and cause a containment breach.
Build a Faraday cage
Richard Thomas Middaugh
Preparation cannot be over emphasized! The threat is real whether you or I wish to admit it. While it can be rather expensive to prepare for, it will be a hell of a lot more costly in the misery index if preparation has not taken place. Read! Become knowledgeable concerning what might take place. Know what your limits are! Enlist the help of your friends.
Patrick Huggins
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This is stupid…..
Preparation cannot be over emphasized! Keep in mind you won’t be able to Facebook or watch tv.. so have a few books on hand to read a game of uno or chess by candlelight is always a good time of you have company but a bottle of rum will keep ya in high spirits even if your alone in the dark with no music or anything!
People here are so smart that as an electrician after an EMP I’ll be busy for WEEKS with people asking me to fix their electricity!
No Problem, I can look at it for them @ $150 an hour cash up front (to tell them the grids down and they’re idiots!) 😉
pacemaker patients might not make it so won’t matter to me hubby won’t be around then
Check out the book, ‘One Second After’. It is, I suspect, a fairly accurate portrayal of what will happen after an EMP.
Coming soon to a city near you !
Survive without electricity.
Create a Faraday cage to stop your technology, simple
Or live without it. Probably the safer option.
Why would losing vast amounts of data and information be safer?
Chrissie Coyne
James Brady
Thats with an EMP. What about a pole shift? Or a huge CME eruption from the sun that sets our magnetosphere ringing like a bell over several weeks? Those are longer term, likely problems. You might have to keep your electronics in that cage for quite a while. And if its bad enough so that the grids are blown, it would take years ( by official estimates)
I wonder would the cage of dune buggy also work as a Faraday cage?
You will have about a month before the 200 nuclear reactors in America start to melt down and you will be dead shortly after that!
Personal data would be useless and the least of your worries…. no grid equals no fuel, no food deliveries, no heat or a/c, no sewage pumps, the cities especially would be chaos
If the battery was unhooked and it was closed in with a metal body and grounded… people with enclosed metal carports cars would be protected
I have a portable solar array and enough powerpacks to last a long time + additional batteries for my laptop and other devices, I have 8TB of movies music and instructional videos as well as a vast digital library, not to mention a USB projector and soundbox, you can hate tech all you like, me, I have a backup of each backup as well as my primary, so I will be watching the last blockbuster movies ever made by humanity on the big screen. I also have night vision, LED torches and headlamps, a few in multi band transceiver with tactical throat mic systems, rechargeable batteries for everything as well as non rechargeable batteries as disposable’s that I can trade. My Faraday cage is an old army trunk that has plastic boxes containing my kit. I will have a digital copy of everything important after the world goes pear shaped and the ability to access it. It’s bot hard to be able to avoid being cast into the stone age by a society with its head up it’s collective arses. I would have thought on a prepper site you people would already know this$#%&!@*
Uhhh yeah that about sums it up
If there is an EMP then you’ll have much more to worry about than no electricity
An emp bypasses circuit breakers AND surge protectors because the first pulse moves faster than they can react. That is why it is a problem. There are three pulses in a nuclear EMP, each one has different characteristics. If they light off real EMP weapons we are pretty much fucked.
FALSE…. you dont know that
We already live in complete chaos. This would just shift the focus.
Lightning is direct electricity finding a grounding point. EMP is magnetic and and not contained in a single point.
Training outlast hoarding.
Aquire skills not things.
I’m so sad to share that, but too few know.
Nuclear is bad, solar could save us, but only if its implemented now!!!