So all of you Doomsday Preppers and Survivalists...re: River Bend Nuclear Power Plant...

Nuclear facilities are hardened and not dependent on the grid for self sufficiency.

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Eli Goldfinger

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Nuclear facilities are hardened and not dependent on the grid for self sufficiency.

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Totally understand that. But to what extent is this self sufficiency rated for? Months? Perpetuity? To add to that, are there human capital needs that require human intervention that can be assured?

Not paranoid as much as I am curious about the contingencies that they’ve been required to plan for.

Fukushima had volunteers going in to keep things under control even though they knew the radiation would kill them. Good luck finding anybody with that kind of sense of duty in Louisiana.

Anyway, I'm upwind of all that shite. Nice knowing you baws. Thoughts and prayers.

Can't remember the acronym but they have an Apocalypse Plan in order to protect the surround community/environment. Put in place post-Fukishima. Contains radioactive material indefinitely I'm pretty sure.

The NRC is a very conservative and safe controller of nuclear energy and the risk of these plants is very low. From what I hear, they sit inside these plants and just wait for someone to even think about making a wrong move and they slap them with a fine. There is no room for error with those guys.

Fukushima didn’t prepare for the tsunami, Chernobyl was some crazy ussr testing. 3 mile island was our only real scare, but it wasn’t a true meltdown, it only tastes great on breaded wings.

Do a little reading, they actually do strategically place the power plants for possible uranium exposure.

Nuclear energy is very safe and was even starting to gain ground under the Obama administration, before Fukushima fudged things up. IIRC their reactor design is different than ours (they use graphite) , and that made it susceptible to the incident. I believe that nuclear power is really a case where something extremely dangerous is made into a non threat through the controlling of risk and use of safeguards.

There's a nuke about 30 miles north of NYC on the Hudson River. I think it's called Indian Point or maybe Stoney Point. I don't know what the prevailing wind conditions are there, but I know it makes some local residents nervous. It was built in the 60s or 70s I believe and is up for relicensing. Some people don't want it to happen. Whether that fear is out of ingnorance, valid concerns, politically motivated or some combination of the three, I don't know.

When the earthquake struck, Fukushima SCRAMed the three reactors that were operating. Three other reactors were already offline for refueling. Emergency generators came online to continue to circulate cooling water. When the tsuenami hit, it overwhelmed a ~35' seawall and flooded most of the generators. They were able to keep (or reestablish) cooling water circulation on a couple of reactors, but four overheated and at least one completely melted down.

I don't know all the particulars, but I seem to remember that if the emergency generators and fuel storage had been located at a higher elevation, the disaster could have been avoided or largely mitigated.

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Not paranoid as much as I am curious about the contingencies that they’ve been required to plan for.

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Good try, terrorist, I'm not falling for it.

Hopefully, they didn't use the same engineers pre-Katrina New Orleans used. Dug a hole and put the back-up generators for the water pumps in.

they were "hiding" the pumps from the water I suppose.

What pumping station(s) had below grade back-up generators? Not that it mattered in the end, because the only thing that stopped the water from rising was when the water level in the city equilized with water level of the lake. There wasn't enough pumping capacity to stay ahead of the water coming in through the level of breaches. Or at least I don't think there was.