Yeh, I have been reading that the up river stuff is huge this year. Well I understand that the nuke plant needs access to water, but wasn’t there any higher ground around that could be used?
If the plant floods, doesn’t that put lots of people in danger everywhere downriver too?
I honestly have no idea. It would depend on the elevation of their spent fuel pool relative to the river.
The historic flood plains of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers are large. Very often, they flood a little ways out from the main channel... but then every 50 or 100 years, they can flood much, much further out. They’re shallower, broader rivers with wide, shallow-sloping flood plains. When these rivers flood out of their banks, a lot of ground tends to be flooded to relatively shallow depths.