Apparently you didn’t read the article I quoted from nor the link provided. The article is by someone with this experience below, and if you read his entire article, you would perhaps understand a bit more. Or maybe you are a nuclear engineer with 30 years experience and don’t agree with him?
Link just in case you missed it, and the entire point of the article is that without outside electricity, crap happens, even to spent fuel rods. whatever the cause of loss of power. He’s discussing loss of power due to EMP but the cause of loss of power doesn’t make any difference.
http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/09/effects_of_an_emp_attack_or_se.html
As a nuclear engineer who has worked in the industry for nearly 30 years, I have agreed with this premise – that all of the US commercial reactors are very safe. Under normal circumstances, I still believe this. However, as I have been studying the effects of EMP for the last several years, my concerns have grown.
Please read my comment above and the article linked.
Are you a nuclear engineer with 30 years of experience in the field? The author of the article is.
he entire point of the article is that without outside electricity, crap happens
No the point is without water coolant crap happens.
There's an ocean full of water there at the plant. There using it at some of the reactors now.