Vulnerability of Electric Power Systems to Nuclear Weapons
Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior, Defense Electric Power Administration, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vi, 243, [3] pages. Maps (with some color), Tables, Figures. Notations on front cover and title page. Cover worn. RARE. This is the report of an engineering study on the vulnerability of the nation's electric power systems to attack by nuclear weapons. It was authorized by the Dept. of Defense, Office of Civil Defense and the Dept. of the Interior, Defense Electric Power Administration. The Office of Civil Defense, realizing the necessity of having essential ventilation and illumination in community shelters, sought a valid estimate of the electric power service that would be available under conditions following a nuclear attack. The results of this study were intended to provide the requisite estimate. It also contains useful information on the ability of the electric power industry to furnish power for decontamination and recovery during the survival period following the first 15 days of shelter confinement. The Defense Electric Power Administration was selected to perform this study because of its recent experience in conducting related studies. Representatives from more than 1500 operating companies contributed more than 50,000 person hours to obtain and analyze much of the technical information and supporting data for the material contained in this report. This study was the most complete analysis made to date (1964) of the effects of an assumed full-scale nuclear attack on the nation's electric power industry. These effects were examined in detail to find out what they mean to the entire electric power industry in terms of physical damage to the generating plants, transmission lines and related facilities. The report contains: Summary and Conclusions, Study Problem, Study Method, Generating Capacities, Preattack and Surviving Populations by States and Regions (Time-Phased), Load, Capacity and Balance; Regional Summaries by States (Time-Phased), and Load, Capacity, and Balance:: Composite and National Summary of All Regions (Time-Phased). This report illustrates the restrictive influence of the attack on such factors as power service capability, interrelationship between electric power systems, and restorational time. It takes into consideration a high-level national attack with nuclear weapons and evaluates its effects on generation facilities, substation transformers, transmission facilities, and interconnections. This overall insight into conditions that will have to be met should be useful to the electric power industry when considering plans and programs to reduce vulnerability to attack and to provide service when and where needed postattack. The results of this study are of special significance to national security because they bear directly on the feasibility of a sound national fallout shelter program. In another sense the value of this study goes beyond the data contained in the report. As the first nationwide effort of its kind, it established standards, methods and format which can be used to guide future combined industry/government surveys to update or expand information on the vulnerability of electric power systems. The usefulness and validity of the study were increased by directing inquiry to the smallest practical reporting unit--the county. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Civil Defense, Nuclear weapons, Electric Power Systems, Survivability, Recovery, Decontamination, Community Shelters
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