CNN NUKE Shutdown Update

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in another one of their steller indepth reports CNN Headline news stated last night that their are currently 35 nukes (33% of existing nukes) that are not yet y2k compliant. they stated that there is now talk of shutting down any non-compliant nukes by the end of September.

-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), July 08, 1999

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Ok, I'll quit(hic) drinkin' tommorow...Really(hic) today I'll stop...For sure next(hic)week, no more booze..

Denial, gotta love it!

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), July 08, 1999.


Verification please snuggle buggle.

br14

-- br14 (br14@bout.done), July 08, 1999.


I'll verify that I saw the same story on CNN's Headline News last night.

I can't however, speak for the motives or accuracy of CNN in general. They do seem to be a bit biased in the direction of the current administrationI(tic), which would tend to make this story more believable than less so.

-- Hardliner (searcher@internet.com), July 08, 1999.


thanks corrine,let me spit out my gum,someone gets a smootch!!

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), July 08, 1999.

Go look at the NRC site. They only audited 12 of the plants. Over half of the audited plants are in the not yet compliant group (as opposed to ~30 percent of the unaudited plants). Many of those audited did assessment by vendor inquiry vice testing. Now think about Bell south's statement that half the vendor compliance statements are wrong, when tested.

Do you want to live next to a nuke power plant that test vendor compliance statements by going through the century change with a hot reactor?

-- noel (ngoyette@csc.com), July 08, 1999.



Didn't NRC say they were going to close non-compliant reactors in July? Now they say September?

-- (rcarver@inacom.com), July 08, 1999.

CNN is still running the story today and they say "end of September".

In an interesting side note, if you check the Yahoo full coverage y2k web page there are two articles on the subject, one from AP and one from Reuters. AP reads much like the CNN blurb. Reuters is a happy face.

-- Mommacares (harringtondesignX@earthlink.net), July 08, 1999.


I'll verify this too. Like corrine said, it was typical Headline News brevity and lack of detail.

Geez, corrine, if you're a troll, you sure are schizophrenic about it!

-- ariZONEa (corrine_s_house@whoknows.com), July 08, 1999.


arizona,

don't remember ever having referred to myself as a troll.

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-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), July 08, 1999.


What happened to the NRC's drop-dead, final, no-more-extensions date of June 30? A year ago NRC was sending out warnings that midyear was the final deadline and noncompliant plants would be shut down immediately thereafter. Seems I recall at least three or four threads on this forum about it, along with analysis of the impact it would have on US power supplies -- and pessimists (realists?) who predicted exactly what has apparently now happened. New England almost went torolling balckouts earlier this week because of heat-related power demands. Imaginbe what would have happened if half the local nuke plants had been offline as well.

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), July 08, 1999.


The deadline was for each utility to submit either its detailed completion schedule (complete with exceptions and the exact way each exception would be handled during a later outage); or submit a legally binding completion statement signed by the company president (which makes him criminally liable for false statements to the NRC!) that says the company has remediated and tested its nuclear plants.

The NRC was to then evaluate each schedule, and all the completion statements, and decide based on its technical evaluation whether those plants that had not been finished would be permitted to stay in operation through the rest of this year. The July 1 date is an "administrative" date for submitting the letter, not a technically relevant date with respect to shutdown requirements.

In no case will a non-compliant plant be permitted to operate past the end of this year - I understand that several plants have outages planned in Nov; others are scheduled to be restarted after the first of the year. Those plants obviously will not be compliant until their scheduled date.

In most cases, such as replacement of a valve or a regulator, similar jobs have been done elsewhere, and the methods and parts are already staged. So this reduces the "risk" of not finishing, or of doing it incorrectly - other plants have had to do the same job on the same valve. Each plant reads the other's operating and repair procedures - that's one of the big advantages of the nuclear plants over the fossil plants.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 08, 1999.


CNN: NRC says 35 reactors not Y2K ready

-- Link Boy (-@-.-), July 08, 1999.

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