Like how you can fry your electronics if they’re plugged in when the power comes back on from an outage, why can’t we “unplug” everything so to speak?
In: Planetary Science
In the US, the devices that protect electrical infrastructure are required to meet a certain level of EM shielding — electromagnetic pulses are a much smaller concern than other kinds of radiation, including EM interference generated by other devices in an electrical substation.
Any event that causes an EMP powerful enough to damage the modern power grid is going to cause other, much more significant problems.
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