Talk:Nuclear Reactor/@comment-35088630-20190425204558/@comment-1191892-20191130155214

Fukushima had numerous other issues, primary among them being that the plant was 40 years old, severely outdated, and known to be dangerous (indeed, it was known that the seawall wasn't big enough, they just didn't do anything about it), and was in fact in the process of being decommissioned at the time. Unless your base has coolant pump generators in its basement, flooding by itself wouldn't be a major concern since the reactor seems to be a sealed, self-contained module. It is staggerly unlikely that a nuclear reactor made in the 22nd century would have any of the design weaknesses of a boiling-water reactor made in the 1970s.