Boulder Power Outage Disrupts Atomic Clock, NIST Assures Time Integrity
TL;DR
A power outage caused by preemptive shutdowns in Boulder temporarily affected the NIST F-4 atomic clock, resulting in a minimal 4 microsecond drift in time measurement, but the system's redundancies ensure no significant impact on global timekeeping or critical industries.
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