Remember those remaining US nuclear reactors of the same design as Fukushima? Some are in Alabama.
Reuters:
All three units at TVA’s 3,274-megawatt Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama tripped about 5:30 EDT (2230 GMT) after losing outside power to the plant, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
A TVA spokeswoman said the station’s backup power systems, including diesel generators, started and operated as designed. External power was restored quickly to the plant but diesel generators remained running Wednesday evening, she said.
The Browns Ferry units are among 23 U.S. reactors that are similar in design to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan where backup generators were swept away in the tsunami that followed the massive earthquake on March 11.
More on Browns Ferry’s potential vulnerabilities at Washington’s Blog.
Steve 
Publius Cato 
Much ado about nothing.
*Even if*, *even if*, all hell breaks loose and a Mark I reactor loses outside power and loses its generators, and begins to lose its batteries, it takes the better part of a day for the reactors to go out of control after the batteries have given out.
12 hours is far more than enough time to get emergency generators to a site and running – even by aircraft – though when a country was devastated by an earthquake, a tsunami, and completely incompetent plant operators and regulators, this didn’t happen.
Although this is rational thinking about an emotional problem by my lights, the problem at Fukushima was not a failure of nuclear engineering, but the inability a consensus-based society with a very chummy political system to cut the clap and dot their i s and cross their t s when they really had to.
For shame.