[little jeremiah]

The entire article on Survivalblog is very interesting.

What is amazing to me is the number of people responding to me (on another thread) that any concern over the spent fuel rods heating up is completely wrong, and nothing harmful or dangerous can possibly happen.

I don’t get it. Can’t they read? They think the scenario is wrong? That a nuclear engineer with 30 yrs in the field is totally off? I want to hear how he’s wrong, in detail. From everything I can gather, nuclear power plants are not designed for being off grid for more than the amount of time their diesel generators can run. And these plants have no diesel generators to run them at all. And no power to connect to.

[palmer]

Your author writes junk like "I have recently been in contact with a member of the intelligence community who is highly knowledgeable in the area of EMP." and you expect us to take him seriously? Gimme a break.

[D-fendr]

I don’t get it.

The responses are pretty clear, which parts don't you get?

They think the scenario is wrong?

First, this isn't an EMP, so yeah, different scenario. Second are the objections to the facts about:
- storage of spent fuel above the reactor

lack of water for cooling or means to use it at the sites where they are currently using seawater for cooling.

Other than that...