EMP Nuclear Power Plant Scenario

     A couple of things about the Fukushima nuclear 
incident.  On NHK news an employee of the nuclear power 
plant was describing what happened when the earthquake 
struck.  He said he was awakened from his nap in the 
hallway when the earthquake struck.  I was surprised this 
got by TEPCO, but they were busy and I'll bet you there 
were a few phone calls made when this hit the airways.
     Second what about an EMP.  Can a nuclear power plant 
operate without electricity?  We have this extreme 
commentary that often refers to a electrical magnetic 
pulse (EMP) from a nuclear explosion that disables all 
electrical devices.  Right now Westinghouse is trying to 
sell a safer nuclear reactor that can keep functioning 
three days without power, using gravity feed, but what 
are the extremes of an EMP?  Is it devastating enough to 
take out electricity for more than three days and what 
about the thousands of reactors operating now?  Hey you 
wanted extreme scenarios.  I mean they missed a Tsunami, 
although Tepco was in the process of shoring up seawalls 
at other facilities when the wave hit.  You know there 
was another power plant down the coast that had one of 
three pumps shorted out by the water and it had already 
shored up its walls.
    I heard a retiree from NORAD describe an EMP as a 
reality and that WWIII would start with the lights going 
out.  It was the loss of the pumps that caused the 
meltdown in Japan.

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