ah yes,

let us sick to the issues. well guess what folks... this is the issue. if we lose part of the grid and the nukes stay up, so what? we dig ourselves out and suffer for awhile.

well, if the nukes go down all bets are off. we have 433 nuclear power plants keep that in mind and the wind knows no borders. how long would your water stay contaminated, how long would the land be unusable, how many people would die? it can't happen to you... well think again sasquatch.

look at your children, your grandchildren, all of those near and dear, all of those that you love... for some on this forum that would entail standing in front of the mirror. the nukes aren't an issue... are you nuts? it is the biggest single issue with the longest lasting repercussions.

here is someone else that agrees with me. what the hell does he know? he just graduated at the head of his class. who is he to question the reliability/stability of the nuclear power industry?

http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/Industry/Utilities/smadhok9925.htm

as i said so many times before... the risks far out weigh any perceived benefits.

and as an aside, i didn't advocate getting rid of nuclear facilities... i said take them down for the rollover. ask yourself why do the 'engineers' get quiet when tmi is mentioned?

ok, i'm done... you can go back to arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

_never in human history have so many humans blindly trusted that so many other humans won't screw up._

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

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Well we've officially reached the point where the owls and roosters have hardened the lines and communication is beginning to break down.

I can smell it in the air, it's called fear. We all get it. I admit it, I'm scared out of my mind about Y2K. Scared that it will harm my family, your family, our world. If the grid goes down we all suffer, but some more than others. My goal is to not be an other.

Rick's right about the Nuke issue in that it polarizes, and this forum was not meant to be a political debate on the merits of nuclear energy. That being said, I am surprised at how little press this appointment of Greta Dicus has gotten. Did it strike anyone as ironic to the core (apologies EL, no pun intended) that her experience is in the State of Arkansas? Hellooooo.....anyone remember where that is? Billybobs home state.

I am deeply deeply concerned about the developments we are seeing on the Nuke discretionary rulings. As a ten year old child I remember watching tears run down my mothers face as she tried to figure out what to do during TMI. (and we lived two hours away!). We were scared to death. And none of the idiots on TV had it straight. The people we were supposed to trust to know what they were doing.

So forgive me for being crass, but this stuff we're being sold by the electrical industry is just plain crap. And I'm not buying it.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Jim,

I couldn't have said it better myself! And that Arkansas bit is more than just a coincidence IMHO. If it was anyone besides Clinton doing the nominating......but it is him, or Hillary, isn't it? We're down to six months now and we have, what, 3 electric utilities that say they are ready. Thousands to go. We should be seeing completion reports of dozens every week, but we don't, do we? How can anyone be optimistic at this point in time, unless they are just plain infected with that Irrational Exuberance that Greespan loves to talk about.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Did it strike anyone as ironic to the core (apologies EL, no pun intended) that her experience is in the State of Arkansas?

:-)

-- Anonymous, June 24, 1999

I don't see this as a debate on the wisdom or unwisdom of use of nuclear power to generate electricity. That question has been answered and the results are on line.

It reads to me much more like concerned commentary on the differential risks to public health presented by worst-case failure of a nuclear power plant as compared to worst-case failure of a fossil-fuel power plant, with respect to uncertainties contingent on the Y2K rollover.

-- Anonymous, June 24, 1999