A Flash as Powerful as 31,200 Nuclear Reactors Hit France - Energy Revolution

A lightning impact of unheard of power hit southwestern France on 19 May, according to the study office specializing in extreme weather events Keraunos. With an intensity of 516,000 amps, lightning equalled the power of several tens of thousands of nuclear reactors during a fraction of seconds. The tranquillity of the small village of Lavaurette (Tarn-et-Garonne) and its 212 inhabitants was brutally disturbed by a powerful lightning impact, fall…