Reply #12: You are being more than a little hyper-alarmist here

[JayhawkSD]

Air traffic is always prohibited over nuclear power plants. From time to time, especially at times when private and news aircraft want to violate that rule, FAA issues a directive reminding aviators of the rule. They are not shutting down aircraft traffic due to any kind of emergency, merely reminding aviators of a standing rule.

Nuclear reactors are located on rivers because they require a rather large quantity of cooling water. Having a lengthy discussion of why they are located in such "dangerous" locations if a bit silly. They cannot locate them where there is no water available to cool them.

Cooper is a pressurized water reactor, not the boiling water design type that failed at Fukushima. The safety issues of a BWR are several orders of magnitude greater than are in play with a PWR. In any case, an orderly gradual flooding is a dramatically different event than a massive earthquake and tsunami.