[GOPJ]

... something HAS to be done about the nuke plants - from what I understand (and I may be wrong, and hope that I am), the power to circulate the cooling water is drawn from an external source - i.e. not from the plant itself - so that if that source is cut off, and the diesel generators run out of fuel, then there’s no cooling and the plant goes super-critical shortly thereafter...and we have 400 nukes in this country, 400 potential Fukashimas.

This is the kind of thing Trump would understand... I hope you're wrong on this... any idea how many hours diesel generators can keep water circulating after an external power loss?

[Ancesthntr]

That depends entirely on the fuel supply available. I can’t imagine that any of these utilities keep more than a week’s worth - why would they, when no conceivable disaster other than an EMP would prevent the delivery of fuel for that long?