[smokingfrog]

Actually, I think that nuke plant was already shut down for refueling, but obviously, they don’t want flood water getting in there, mainly due to the stored radioactive waste, which still requires cooling, etc.

[verum ago]

Actually, I think that nuke plant was already shut down for refueling, but obviously, they don’t want flood water getting in there, mainly due to the stored radioactive waste, which still requires cooling, etc.

Yep, they shut it down in April. The refueling/maintenance period was scheduled (according to news articles from April) to end on or about June 21st, but now they're going to wait out the flooding before bringing it back online.

But yeah, it's kinda hard to melt down a reactor that's in a state of cold shutdown. Sounds like they're in pretty good shape; weeks to prepare and they say they can handle at least another 10ft increase in water levels.