• Nuclear blackout, also known as fireball blackout or radar blackout, is an effect caused by explosions of nuclear weapons that disturbs radio communications...
    22 KB (3,281 words) - 16:30, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear weapon
    issues List of nuclear weapons List of states with nuclear weapons Nth Country Experiment Nuclear blackout Nuclear bunker buster Nuclear weapons of the...
    114 KB (12,992 words) - 23:06, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northeast blackout of 2003
    The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian...
    90 KB (10,850 words) - 23:04, 24 April 2024
  • The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. The only unaffected neighborhoods...
    27 KB (3,183 words) - 06:16, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear warfare
    arms race Nuclear blackout Nuclear briefcase Nuclear disarmament Nuclear famine Nuclear holocaust Nuclear terrorism Nuclear weapon Nuclear weapons and...
    116 KB (13,665 words) - 08:40, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolling blackout
    A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally...
    19 KB (1,668 words) - 04:33, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northeast blackout of 1965
    The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada...
    18 KB (2,054 words) - 06:27, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radar
    received at very high energy levels, and also reduces the effects of nuclear blackout, making them useful in the missile detection role. L 1–2 GHz 15–30...
    98 KB (11,751 words) - 23:21, 25 April 2024
  • substation outside Miami triggered widespread blackouts in parts of Florida affecting four million people. The nuclear reactors at Turkey Point power plant were...
    160 KB (16,287 words) - 07:13, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sentinel program
    multi-state areas, although it lost the advantages of Sprint in terms of nuclear blackout avoidance. For a system limited to the most basic attacks, the new...
    56 KB (8,150 words) - 02:48, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Effects of nuclear explosions
    The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives...
    61 KB (7,439 words) - 07:05, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
    original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2019. "Nuclear "Station Blackout"". All Things Nuclear. 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2020-05-11. "The Fukushima Daiichi...
    120 KB (11,796 words) - 02:39, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fukushima nuclear accident
    The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on March...
    194 KB (18,732 words) - 21:12, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chernobyl disaster
    26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR...
    271 KB (29,485 words) - 00:18, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station
    Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear and gas-fired power plant located on a 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) site two miles east of Homestead, Florida...
    41 KB (2,288 words) - 13:27, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear power in Ukraine
    Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant led to rolling blackouts throughout the country in December 2014. Due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the nuclear power plant...
    26 KB (1,965 words) - 10:58, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
    The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station (Ukrainian: Запорізька атомна електростанція, romanized: Zaporiz'ka atomna elektrostantsiia) in southeastern Ukraine...
    31 KB (2,552 words) - 09:55, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kori Nuclear Power Plant
    Say". The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency. Retrieved 21 January 2022. "Loss of shutdown cooling due to station blackout during refueling outage"....
    15 KB (1,067 words) - 16:26, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
    of entire Alternating Current station blackout on the nuclear power plant] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission. 11 June 1993. Archived...
    187 KB (19,415 words) - 09:58, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Energy in California
    generation, but has increased since. Major blackouts in California include: 1996 Western North America blackouts, caused by a summer heat wave 2000–01 California...
    76 KB (7,271 words) - 04:02, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nike Zeus
    to become opaque to radar signals, an effect that became known as nuclear blackout. This was extremely worrying for any system like Zeus, which would...
    82 KB (11,151 words) - 02:57, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nike-X
    intercepts would also have the advantage of reducing the problem with nuclear blackout. The lower edge of the extended fireball used to induce this effect...
    80 KB (11,213 words) - 02:47, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Natanz
    Natanz, leading to concerns about Iran's nuclear program. Natanz nuclear facility is part of Iran’s nuclear program. It is located some 33 km NNW from...
    19 KB (1,628 words) - 20:58, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for AN/FPQ-16 PARCS
    required resolution, but also helped with a serious problem known as nuclear blackout, which would render large areas of the sky opaque to radar. This was...
    29 KB (3,396 words) - 02:48, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blackout (Elsberg novel)
    Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg, described by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept...
    5 KB (326 words) - 07:17, 22 November 2023
  • of northern and eastern India on 30 and 31 July 2012. The 30 July 2012 blackout affected over 400 million people and lasted about 13.5 hrs. During that...
    32 KB (3,100 words) - 09:27, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for W71
    W71 (category Nuclear warheads of the United States)
    nuclear explosion at high altitude has the disadvantage of creating a significant amount of electronic noise and an effect known as nuclear blackout that...
    15 KB (1,866 words) - 03:10, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sentry program
    would be filled with nuclear explosions that would render higher altitudes opaque to radar, an effect known as nuclear blackout. They began development...
    30 KB (4,373 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2011 Southwest blackout
    The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern...
    24 KB (2,850 words) - 19:39, 25 January 2024
  • to ponder where to store nuclear waste". Reuters. Retrieved 21 November 2012. "Loss of shutdown cooling due to station blackout during refueling outage"...
    24 KB (2,566 words) - 13:43, 22 April 2024