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

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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.

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I’m sure there are enough baws around who would volunteer if faced with the choice of dying themselves vs dying alongside their children and families.

Have a little faith, man.

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

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This is incorrect info, if a nuclear station has no way to distribute the power it makes the unit will automatically scram. Brownsferry lost offsite power during the 2011 tornado outbreak and all units screamed. We have 8 diesel generators but one was tagged out for scheduled maintenance so we ran on 7 deisels for over 5 days which had never been done in the U.S. We lost transmission lines all over the valley and could not send out or receive any power. I was shocked to learn after that accident that we make power but send every bit of out to suppliers and we then buy back power from the local supplier. IIRC we were burning thru 50k gallons of diesel every 24 hours, we had tanker trucks coming in and out around the clock. Without the generators we would have had no capability to cool those three cores or the water in our spent fuel pools and it would have gotten bad feel fast. We do have an emergency system to kill the reactor forever by dumping boron in it to stop all reaction. Fukushima melted down due to the poor design of generators outside and they flooded out. All of our generators are behind water tight doors and the fuel tanks are underground. Fukushima did make nuke power safer than it was but the cost has also shut down a lot plants around the country.

What about what I said is incorrect? You pasted info that I didn’t even say. Maybe you meant to respond to someone else. My company implemented FLEX. I know how nuclear power plants work. I’m currently badged at River Bend Station.