-Caveat Lector- HAHA! Yes, the POPE IS JEWISH!! SEE STARS **** BELOW to referrence point.) Paul VI WORE THE LITTLE SQUARE BOX WITH NINE FACETS ON EACH SIDE- THE JEWISH EPHAT (sp?) Sort of an unspoken sign to his hanlders to say, I am one with you. Vatican II is heresy and the church that has sprung from it is bearing evil fruit. Watch what they do, not what they say. -Caveat Lector- Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums Summary and Comments (feel free to mail this page) Category: Power_Grid Date: 1999-06-29 06:44:51 Subject: Good News from Nuclear Industry's PR Departments Link: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990628/tc/utilit ies_nuclear_2.html Comment: This report is PR-based. It says that everything will be just fine next week when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issues its y2k report, excepyt for 10% of the plants, which have not been identified. *************Will the NRC shut them down? Is the Pope Jewish?******************** They knew that the plants are compliant, and will therefore pass the trests next September when the plants can go off-line for testing without raising rates, i.e., without cutting into company profits. This is compliance based on faith. It's true: these plants need power to shut down safely. So, they have bought diesel generators. But they need five months of power to shut down safely: to cool the water. Spent fuel storage When removed from a reactor, a fuel bundle will be emitting both radiation, primarily from the fission fragments, and heat. Spent fuel is unloaded into a storage facility immediately adjacent to the reactor to allow the radiation levels and the quantity of heat being released to decrease. These facilities are large pools of water; the water acts as both a shield against the radiation and an absorber of the heat released. Spent fuel is generally held in such pools for a minimum of about five months. No problem. They'll just buy it from the grid. It's all planned for. Stop worrying. This is a Reuters story on YAHOO! (June 27). * * * * * * * * * * * The nuclear power industry, aiming to allay public fears of power outages and radiation leaks, has stepped up efforts to make sure plants are not vulnerable to the year 2000 computer bug. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will release next week a report on exactly how ready each of the nation's 103 nuclear power reactors are for the millennium date change. Nuclear reactors account for about 20 percent of all U.S. power generation. . . . ''All of our plant shutdown systems are analog,'' said Robert Haverkamp, manager of the Y2K project at Southern California Edison Co.'s (AMEX:SCEq - news) San Onofre nuclear power plant in San Clemente, Calif. Nevertheless, Edison has, over the past 18 months, meticulously tracked down and remedied all plant systems determined to be vulnerable to the date change, he said. `''will be reporting full readiness to the NRC on June 30,'' Haverkamp said. But operations-related systems at about 10 of the 103 reactors are not expected to get a clean bill of health until later this year, Beedle said. The trade group did not identify which plants are not yet up to snuff, but emphasized that all are set to undergo maintenance work after power demand has peaked for the summer. . . . Like most nuclear reactors, the two operating units at San Onofre are connected to the regional electricity grid, which brings in the necessary power for cooling the plant and preventing any threat of meltdown. As part of everyday operations, critical systems at nuclear plants are designed with ''fail safe'' conditions, which automatically shut the plant down if they are not met. ''Even if our worst fears come true and the grid goes down at midnight on December 31 and we have a station blackout, the reactor shuts down safely and we can restart after the clock changes,'' Beedle said. The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), which oversees delivery of electricity in the United States and Canada, said in March the industry had completed more than 75 percent of the required testing and remediation of its systems and nearly all were expected to be up to speed by June 30. Fewer than 3 percent of all components failed Y2K testing, with most errors occurring in systems, such as schedule logs, that would not cause the lights to go out, NERC said. As a back up, the NRC requires every nuclear reactor to have on site at least two diesel-powered generators to provide emergency power in case of a failure in the grid connection. If, for some random reason, those units were also to fail, nuclear operators have established backup contingencies. Edison, for example, has determined two transmission paths, one from San Diego and one from Hoover Dam in Arizona, that could quickly supply the plant with emergency power. Officials said special attention has been paid to making sure that bureaucratic conditions for plant operations will be met at the time of the date change. . . . Link: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/... Return to Category: Power_Grid Return to Main Categories Return to Latest Links Return to Home Page ------------------------------------------- constructive things to do about Y2K the Year 2000 global computer crash "prepare yourself and three of your friends for what threatens to be the scourge of our achievements ... the millennium bug" -- Nelson Mandela www.globalactionplan.org -- sustainability plan under consideration by city of Portland, Oregon for helping communities survive and thrive www.utne.com/y2k -- Utne Reader's Y2K Citizen's Action Guide www.co-intelligence.org -- Awakening: the upside of Y2K www.sunship.com -- Y2K Wake Up (excellent wall poster of problems and transformative potentials) www.cassandraproject.org -- individual & community preparedness, public health concerns, links to Y2K citizen action groups www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/y2k.html store food, water, cash (but only for a week of disruptions) www.tmn.com/y2k -- scenarios, psychology (very progressive & visionary) www.nwc.navy.mil/dsd/y2ksited/y2ksite.htm Naval War College contemplates Y2K scenarios www.fema.gov/nwz99/99001.htm -- feds want everyone to prepare www.ciao.gov -- Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (feds have a sense of humor -- CIAO "goodbye") www.ncs.gov -- U.S. National Communications System learn about power grid & military emergency communications http://cr-iiacfs1.army.mil/army-y2k/y2kelectric90224/tsld001.htm Army is concerned about possible several week power failure http://cr-iiacfs1.army.mil/army-y2k/depsecdef_dod_civil_support.htm MILITARY PLANNING EMERGENCY Y2K FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN THE US!!! www.fas.org/2000/y2k/analysis.htm -- Federation of American Scientists The Year 2000 Problem and the Danger of Accidental Nuclear War www.basicint.org The Bug in the Bomb: The Impact of the Year 2000 Problem on Nuclear Weapons www.kiyoinc.com/current.html -- Cory Hamasaki's Y2K weather reports (technical expertise, sarcastic, not for the faint-hearted) Y2K and environmentalism www.y2ktimebomb.com/Tip/Lord/lord9836.htm www.yardeni.com -- strategic analysis from Wall Street See "Year 2000 Energy Crisis" (oil company problems) www.csis.org/html/y2kw6.html (middle east oil & Y2K) www.carlaemery.com/Y2K.htm -- cities need to store extra food http://y2k.ecovillage.org The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook www.euy2k.com -- learn about electric utility problems (the duration of power failures is probably the single most important factor in the severity of Y2K, apart from terrorist attacks, martial law and accidental nuclear war) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roleigh_martin utilities, banks, and more www.nirs.org -- nuclear information and resource service petitions to nuclear regulatory commission -- very important!!! www.dieoff.org -- "brain food" about the end of the petroleum age www.igc.org/icc370/y2k.htm -- "Y2KO" environmental impacts, practical suggestions for mitigating "01-01-00" and envisioning a sustainable society during the recovery on the other side of the century roll-over - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." -- Henry Kissinger "Managing the outrage is more important than managing the hazard." -- Tom Buckmaster, chairman, Hill & Knowlton (PR firm), explaining the most important rule of public relations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "What's going to happen when whole countries drop off the radar screen with no infrastructure remaining?" -- Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah), Chair of the Senate Y2k Committee, addressing the first White House Y2K Council Summit, December 3, 1998 "The Titanic sank in an ocean that was 99% free of icebergs." -- Y2K embedded systems expert Mark Frautschi www.tmn.com/y2k "If civilization is in danger today, if it is fated to decline and perish, it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of creduluous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation." -- A. Anatoli Kuznetsov, "Babi Yar" (Russian novel about World War II) "the same infrastructure that brings food to the cities and keeps the lights on also manages the radiological and chemical detritus of the 20th century. That stuff has to be kept out of the biota for a geologic period of time. Or else. That's why I really don't think there are any hills to run to. No island anywhere, no remote valley in the Canadian Rockies, is far enough away from the mess that would result from not holding our society together. ".... Maybe Y2K really is checkmate to the unfathonably irreverent way we've been living. All I know is that if we behave as though this absurd problem has us whipped, then it does. And I honesty don't see in that state of affairs anything very different from the basic human condition that confronts us everyday, anyway. 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