I just looked at the web site for a nuclear plant located just outside of New Orleans. Their status doesn't look good to me: They just finished the ASSESSMENT phase in December of 1998. Their progress charts show the following:

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS:

MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS: 13 ( 2 have been remediated) IMPORTANT SYSTEMS: 4 ( 0 have been remediated) EMBEDDED:

MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS: 33 (9 remediated) IMPORTANT SYSTEMS: 7 (0 remediated)

Would any of you power experts like to comment on this? Is this good, bad or somewhere in between?

-- Scarlett (creolady@aol.com), May 19, 1999

Answers

This is 'double un-good' scarlett. Be prepared to live without 'tricity for a good long while in your area, IMHO. Important to recognize that New Orleans and the surrounding municipalities probably depend an aweful lot on electricity to move water and waste around (high ground water levels and almost nill 'vertical drop' for gravity to feed water systems). A few tubs of that pool chlorine (Calcium Hypochlorite only, no other additives) would be a good thing to have on hand.

Looks like trouble.

-- David (C.D@I.N), May 19, 1999.

good work scarlett!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), May 20, 1999.