THREE nukes close within 24hrs, come on people this would a top news story. chances of 3 nukes closing together??????? all close around the rollover and not related????? They will be telling us next that they have found rocking horse shit on the moon.

-- bob (BOB@ghoward-oxley.demon.uk), January 03, 2000

Answers

"Worldwide, Y2K work continues on nuclear power plants in Russia and the former Soviet republics, he [Bruce McConnell] said. Problems in nuclear power plants' management systems emerged there."

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000103S0009

-- hmmm (hmmm@hmmm.com), January 03, 2000.

Hey Bob! Thought I'd try to get in 'fore the Trolls....

It seems funny about that [the Nuke plants] as well as all of the sudden 'glitches' caused by human errors or rabid, wet, kamikazi, mylar balloon, flying squirrels and other elements...none of which are Y2K related but are flooding over the retaining walls as we speak.

Perhaps it's just that everyone iswatching and reporting these things that are normally ignored. Then again, pehaps not.

-- Satanta (EventHoriz@n.com), January 03, 2000.

Actually, the unusual thing is that we heard about them at all. A fairly high percentage of nuclear plants are offline at any given moment and all the various nuke incidents of the past several days were the sort of thing that wouldn't have made the wires had they happened in July.

What did you want? Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings on 24/7 round the clock with "Nuke Crisis 2000" breathlessly reporting on every light-bulb replacement in every Assistant Janitor's supply closet everywhere in the world?

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 03, 2000.

rocking horse shit? good one!

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 03, 2000.

That sounds like a "vehicle hit a utility pole" problem.

-- The New Excuse (whathappenedto@the.squirrels?), January 03, 2000.

I still have food in the cellar.

But really folks...I thought that was the whole idea with Nukes...ride through but agree to shut down if anything happened...

Thank god that the electric to the cooling ponds still work.

Nobody and I repeat nobody, really wanted to see a core meltdown over the weekend.

And I am glad that MY JOB is NOT related to playing with uranium.

But I'm still a bit of a doomer.

-- still a doomer (temporary@polly.com), January 03, 2000.

I thought the status report posted at

http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/DAILY/psr.htm

was supposed to be a DAILY report. How come they still have the one dated 12/31/99 up? Anybody got a link for a current report?

-- Arewyn (artemis31@email.msn.com), January 04, 2000.