Jim Hardy "i was going to check his source for that claim but get a 404 on the link."
Oops, I added a stray colon in the link. I've corrected the link in my post above. The link is also here...
Jim Hardy: "we had no trouble with fuel deliveries after hurricane Andrew. Even though we had weeks of fuel on hand for emergency diesels we kept them topped off. uilities learned from the 1968 blackout that you need to be able to "reboot" your grid."...
I found a recent article suggesting that solar storms predicted in in the next few years pose a serious threat to the electrical grid and thus to nuclear plant cooling systems:
"Severe Solar Storms Could Disrupt Earth This Decade: NOAA," International Business Times...