"Officials of the South Texas Project said Thursday that the nuclear power plant southeast of Austin has defeated the Y2K computer bug.

"We've completed testing and preparations and we don't foresee any problems." said Edward Conaway, spokesman for the plant near Bay City on the Gulf of Mexico.

--From the Austin American-Statesman

-- Anonymous, July 03, 1999

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I apologize for the "all caps". I didn't realize I was doing that.

-- Anonymous, July 03, 1999

do you have a URL for this piece of good news?

-- Anonymous, July 03, 1999

It is my sincere hope that Texas will be up and shining brightly in the night. Much of the waterborne Strategic Petroleum Reserve depends on this being the case. Nederland and Texas City ports are where the SPR bbls. would load onto boats and also into pipelines.

If Texas is down it could have a profound impact.

-- Anonymous, July 03, 1999

Linda,

It was in our newspaper here in Austin. The Austin American Statesman.

-- Anonymous, July 03, 1999

I helped build the South Texas Project, back in the early 80's. We tried hard. I am glad and hope it works.

Note about Nederland and Texas City - STP (South Texas Project) powers Houston and probably Texas City, It is owned by Houston Power and Light, which is in turn owned by ??. It is on the Texas grid. Nederland, is powered by Entergy, and is on the Eastern Grid. Entergy says they are "y2k ready", not compliant. East Texas is on the eastern grid, so Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland, Orange, and the whole "Spindletop" area are subject to those vagueries The east-Texas area is a net power importer and the nuclear power plant supplying the area is in Lousiana.

I hope they both stay up. The whole country needs them to stay up. But, just because STP stays up doesn't mean Nederland has the same probabilities.

-- Anonymous, July 04, 1999