Y2K Ken Raggios' newsletter

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>Bill Clifton wrote:
>

>> From the Y2K Newsletter

>> >Perhaps the most significant news was reported by WorldNewsDaily on
>> January
>> >22, 1999, "Concern over potential safety hazards related to the Y2K
>> >bug prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to announce that
>> >all nuclear power plant operators would be required to offer written
>> >confirmation that they had a program under way to deal with
potential
>> >Y2K problems. The requirement specifies that nuclear power plants
>> >must be "Y2K ready no later than July 1, 1999." Nuclear plants
>> >reportedly require up to four months to shut down, suggesting that
>> >nuclear shutdowns could begin as early as this summer if plants
>> >cannot demonstrate Y2K readiness.

>>


Me b4:
>> A nuke can shutdown at the drop of a hat...normally if you know you
will
>> have a planned outage you will use a slower more refined method. But
to
>> say that you cannot shut a plant down in less that 4 months is really
suspect.
>


Skip added:
>No, it is totally and completely without merit.  I can walk into any
>(and I do mean ANY) nuclear power plant in the country (civilian or
>military) and have it 100% shutdown within 30sec of walking into the
>control room.
>
>BY DESIGN AND MANDATE a nuclear power plant FAILS safe.  Worst case no
>power, no hydraulics they shut down.  Every major component uses
>electricity (or hydraulics) to be operational.  The Three Mile Island
>incident was nothing more than PROOF of how well the nuclear industry
>works.  Don't bother to start listing the distance at which people were
>having "radiation sickness"; that was litterally all in their minds.
>Other wise nobody in the plant would have lived.


me now:
Since yesterday I checked (I have colleagues in nuke operation) and the
units can safely shutdown in milliseconds. And if no problem exists be
back in startup in a day or so. This info is off a 1300MW units (a real
big one).

I have heard many claims of Chernobyl type catastrophes...in the US and
Europe that is not possible as the built in safety features will prevent
a nuke from going critical.

As I have stated before, the main reason I post against this
misinformation is that if this is so blatantly erroneous, can you
believe the remainder of the claims. I addressed Ken in a letter back in
the summer (I was a subscriber) and his response (after 4 letters) was
that I was misinformed and need to research my claims - funny thing is
that part of my job was exactly that, to test systems for Y2K readiness.

Lord Bless;
Bill


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