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There's a Chicago Tribune article which also addresses overseas concerns and provides some corresponding background to the above link. Both articles express a government level of confidence that there should not be significant Y2K risks to nuclear generation, but not so much confidence that contingency plans should not be undertaken. Mr. Koskinen expressed concern in ensuring the Russian nuclear plants, one in Eastern Russia, not far from Alaska, would operate safely. I agree with the label Mike put on his link: A step in the right direction.

As Dick Mills has brought up before, " Everyone is supposed to have a contingency plan, unless you are the customer, in which case you are being alarmist." Now, if we could just get the government to see that an individual risk-management plan is in the same category as sending generators to Russian nuclear plants which aren't "expected" to have "significant risks", but might be impacted by outside concerns, then there might be a little less confrontation about the whole Y2K issue.

http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9904220173,00.html

-- Anonymous, April 22, 1999