Well the first one would be complete apocalypse (or at least the end of electricity), so pricing it in won't be pretty.

Transformers get fried, replacements take years to manufacture. Nuclear power plants cannot cool themselves in grid failure and need constant diesel deliveries for backup generators. Try keeping diesel flowing in the chaos of a nationwide blackout (not to mention the fairly low stockpiles eventually dry up).

So before long you have a national blackout AND nuclear meltdowns.

Literal apocalypse. Just takes one big solar storm.

GN sleep tight!

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A single HEMP attack is probably a few mouse clicks away. Satellites are probably up there already.

I'm assuming you're talking about older nuclear power plants, more modern power plants have more safety protocols in place to prevent disasters.

https://youtu.be/poPLSgbSO6k

That's good. But are there not older nuclear plants around?

To be clear, this is not an anti-nuclear take on my part.

The radionuclides that generate more heat than can be passively removed in older designs are also the ones with half-lives of less than a day.

The operators don't need diesel forever, even two days is likely enough to prevent meltdown.

That's good news!

Though I'd say that 2 days still sounds problematic in a widespread grid down situation. I think most local stockpiles account for that. (I hope)