Boy, I sure am a sporadic poster... LOL: I get motivated for preparedness in spurts!

Having read "Lights Out" and "One Second After" has left me with one of my biggest emergency fears being the threat of EMP. Especially after the interesting event a little while back with the strange "missile/plane/thing" off the coast of California.

However, one thing the two aforementioned books fail to discuss involves nuclear plants... specifically, the spent fuel storage. And how that spent fuel depends on a constant flow of cool water to keep it from blowing the heck up. I do realize that the nuclear plants have backup plans (all of which seem to depend on having electricity!)... but if an EMP fries the generators and transformers... how will they receive cold water? They won't.

I was watching "Aftermath: Population Zero". It paints a very ugly picture of what would happen if the spent fuel is not kept submerged in water. You can imagine.

So. I started researching maps of the nuclear plant site in the US. The sheer quantity makes survival seem like a bleak prospect.

I thought some of you (especially those with more experience or knowledge in the nuclear field) may have some thoughts or insights on this?

Aside from having and being able to get to an isolated place somewhere in the world, what protection is there from this?