[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/solar-storm-nuclear-disaster
Space superstorms of charged particles coming from the Sun can bring down power-grids. The loss of electric power could lead to disastrous superleaks of radiation from old nuclear fuel that depends on power to cool the cooling water. Such a disaster could expose millions of people to carcinogenic radioisotopes. It occurs to me that one solution might be to install large wind farms and batteries near
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