Let's hope they're hurricane-proof!
A nuke plant in the path of Rita never even shut down. Just kept running out power through the storm.
Have you ever seen what goes into the construction of the containment structure of a nuke plant? The walls and ceiling are about 6-10' thick and the reinforcing steel bars that run ALL through it are about 4" in diameter! I don't think a Cat 5 hurricane would even put a dent in the structure.
We took our kids on a tour up at Seabrook Nuke plant in New Hampshire. This was after 9/11, so the security was tight, and we could only go in their Education Building, but it was fascinating! Turns out, they had originally planned to build TWO plants there, but because of the lawsuits and environmental frap they had to endure just opening the first one, and which delayed that opening by 10 years, they scrapped plans for the second plant. We could have had much cheaper electric rates in this area had that second plant come on line.