NRC's Jazcko at Ft. Calhoun: “You can have the potential for fuel to melt if you lose all of your cooling water”

It may be a truism, but it took out of the ordinary, strong questioning by Joe Jordan from Nebraska Watchdog to get the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman, Greg Jaczko, to admit after a tour at the severely flooded Ft. Calhoun nuclear power plant that, although "highly unlikely...You can have the potential for fuel to melt if you lose all of your cooling water." Jaczko credited the Omaha Public Power District for "progress" against flood risks in the past two years, under NRC pressure, but Jordan asked if that progress was going to be good enough, given the still-rising waters of the historically flooded Missouri. Nebraska Watchdog posted a video of the exchange, in which Jaczko assured that NRC was on-site to make sure OPPD "does the right thing."