Good News - It's Official - Nuclear Plants Y2K Ready

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Glad Russia took care of that. Any questions??

Official: Nuclear Power Plants Ready for Y2K The Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's nuclear facilities will not be affected by the year 2000 computer bug, thanks to two years of tests and the replacement of thousands of computers, the atomic energy minister said.

Some 24,000 glitch-prone computers have been replaced and the rest aren't susceptible to the bug, Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov said Thursday, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

"All of the computers could not be replaced, but there are no date-dependent systems that could fail to work in the night of January 1, 2000," Adamov told a news conference.

Unlike many Russian businesses and government agencies, the Atomic Energy Ministry got a relatively early start on the Y2K bug, in which older computers that read only the last two digits of a date may mistake 2000 for 1900 and freeze up.

The ministry has been working on the problem for two years, and has spent $10 million on replacements, tests and modifications, Adamov said.

Some western experts still predict that Russia will experience failures in vital services like electricity and heating, but say that disasters such as meltdowns at nuclear power plants and accidental missile launches are highly unlikely.

Just in case, top nuclear engineers and other specialists will work at Russia's nuclear facilities on New Year's Eve to ward off any potential problems, Adamov said.

The Atomic Energy Minister will also maintain a live video link with the U.S. Department of Energy into the new year to exchange information on potential problems.

-- Bernard (Llama man@cool.net), December 24, 1999

Answers

Klinton OFFICIALLY didn't have sex with that woman either, do you Really believe everything you're told ?

-- Dan G (thepcguru@hotmail.com), December 24, 1999.

Only if its told to me by Gary North, Michael Hyatt, Michael Adams, or Jim Lord.

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), December 24, 1999.

Here, Boris pour more vadka in ur cup. Ay Llama man u like, duh vadka no? Ay show u how we make tesst last two yeeers. U got uh pen? Ay vill hold duh pen ahnd u muv duh paper, ok?

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 24, 1999.

Oh goody, now after what our ever trustfull gov has so lovingly told us , and now the Russians, I can sleep peacefully, knowing that Jan 1 I will not be nuclear dust raining down on the earth.

-- Notforlong (Fsur439@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

Hello,

What about those news announcements from the Russians earlier this year. You remember the ones where the Russians said that they didn't need to check their computers for y2k faults because they worked on a different principle than the west's computers and wouldn't be affected by the y2k rollover.

A month or so later, US government authorities openly admitted to reporters that the Russians had been informed of the problem directly (early this year) and had re-checked their systems and determined that there were in fact problems to be remediated. This all happened within the last 12 months.

How come they say that they have been slaving away for two years now, huh?

And does this simply mean that the Russian "spin" turns slower because they are closer to the north pole?

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 24, 1999.



And Boris Yeltsin's not a drunk embezzler/crime lord who's going to be leaving soon to be replaced by a rabid former KGB agent named Putin.

Helloooooo? What planet are you on?

These are the selfsame people who held parades under nuclear fallout from Chernobyl to assure one and all that everything was OK.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), December 24, 1999.


The Russians are guaranteeing ANYTHING, let alone nuclear safety, and you really believe them? Gawd...

And then Lady Loser chimes in "can I have a URL for that?"

What a pair....

-- (cavscout@fix.net), December 24, 1999.


Pollies will believe anything that will help them hide their fears from themselves.

-- cody (cody@y2ksurvive.com), December 25, 1999.

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