I'm not actually involved in any particular plant.  I work for Mitsubishi which manages aspects of all the plants (I work for a vendor, not a utility).

For everybodies edification, the press is exaggerating the issues with the nuclear plants.  These plants are designed to handle weird situations.  The concern is getting water for cooling.

The plants will use dirty water if they need to but they don't want to because, well, it's dirty and will require a lot of cleanup later.  Messy!

But not to worry, they will use dirty water if they have to in their tertiary cooling loops which will not get contaminated and there will be no radiactive problems.  They just might need to go in later and shovel mud out of their intake loops next week.

No biggy.  It's just that nobody wants to shovel mud (not me!, I like working in air conditioning with clean clothes).

-Kix