Hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods, oh my!

As reported by Matt Wald of the New York Times in his blog "Green," the five member U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seems to have washed its hands of concern about earthquakes and tsunamis in the U.S. (despite the location of two reactors at San Onofre in southern CA and two reactors at Diablo Canyon in central CA on the Pacific coast, as but four examples), but remains concerned about other pathways to "station blackout" that could lead to reactor core meltdowns, high-level radioactive waste storage pool fires, and catastrophic radioactivity releases.