ClimateSilicon Canals1 day ago
1989 solar storm damage in New Jersey warns of worse future
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The 1989 geomagnetic storm caused a Quebec blackout affecting six million people and destroyed a transformer at a nuclear power plant in New Jersey. The Salem transformer damage shows that individual equipment failure can occur without a regional blackout. Custom-built transformers have replacement lead times exceeding a year.
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