Seems to me that Nuclear plants need to be designed to handle a shutdown in the event of an EMP attack. They have backup generators and cooling systems. Wouldn’t this be as simple as making sure the backup generators and cooling pumps are protected by a Ferriday grid?
As far as the effects on the rest of the country, I think every city of 50,000 or more (715 cities) should prepare an emergency power supply location with electrical hookups to their grid. This site could accept one of the concrete encased mini-nuke plants being dropped into place. The idea being that power could be restored very quickly to large segments of the population.
And then vulnerable points in the grid simply need to be hardened against attack.
The mini-nuke plants cost $1 billion to $2 billion a piece. But we probably wouldn’t need 715 of them. We probably just need 200 hundred, and the industrial capacity to quickly make more.
The mini-nuke plants cost $1 billion to $2 billion a piece. But we probably wouldn’t need 715 of them. We probably just need 200 hundred, and the industrial capacity to quickly make more.