What crashed the reactors in Japan wasn’t the earthquake, it was the tsunami. Tsunami in Virginia very unlikely. Nothing to worry about here, but anti-nukes will make what they can of it.
Yeah. This article went on-line almost as fast as the nukes went off-line.
Yes, in Japan the Tsunami took out the backup generators and made access to the plant very difficult. However, they have been discovering that a lot of damage was done to the plant via the earthquake alone. This quake was about 1,000 times weaker then the Japan quake, but these nuke plants apparently were very close to epicenter.