Interesting thread developing at Dan the Power Man, TMI, and Y2K

-- a (a@a.a), July 13, 1999

Answers

Gee, but what about that Peach Bottom nuclear plant Y2K test that resulted in all the safety monitors freezing back in February, nearly resulting in a plant shutdown? Oh yeah, right: "human error -- not Y2K related". Silly, silly me.

(Dan comes across more like the Maytag Repair Man, actually....)

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), July 13, 1999.

Dan comes across more like Norm actually. Only the good news is fit to print, and never mind the disconnects or embarrassing details.

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), July 13, 1999.

This sometimes happens when a person becomes an Unimpeachable, Blessed by God Himself, Honest to Goodness Authority.

Maybe it's just writing style, but Dan, TPM sounds more like a technical writer than an engineer. Note the difference between his posts and those of The Engineer.

-- Elbow Grease (LBO Grise@aol.com), July 13, 1999.

I'd rather not.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 13, 1999.

I think Drew from CBN posted this (old) article. It was posted about the same time that Dan first showed up here. Never did get an answer from him (or anybody), except "I'll look into it..." <:)=

**As part of an experiment last year, technicians at the huge Xingo hydroelectric dam on Brazil's Sao Francisco River set the dates on the plant's main computer forward to Jan. 1, 2000.

**What happened next is still sending chills through Latin America.

**"When they put the date forward, the whole control board went haywire," remembers Marcos Ozorio, one of the members of Brazil's presidential Year 2000 commission. "Twelve thousand warning lights flashed all across the board, with all kinds of alarm information."

**Technicians quickly switched back the date, and are now ferreting out the plant's Y2K bugs. But "if you had been surprised by a situation like this, what you'd have had to do is shut down the plant until you found where the failures were," Ozorio said. "Automatically you'd be taking off the energy board 30 percent of northeast Brazil.

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), July 13, 1999.

a,

I havn't followed Dan's posts very well before.

From reading the differing opionions I don't find anything that makes the problem clear.

Nukes are either Bad or good; Neccessary or Unneccesary.

It seems to me that mariane is as skeptical about the information she gets from Koskienen as I am from nearly everywhere. And that is a shame.

I rue the day I learned that people could lie.

Father

-- Thomas G. Hale (hale.tg@att.net), July 14, 1999.

Dan the Power Man....what a worm. By the looks of it, he's in need of the Eveready Bunny!! A note to all of OUR regulars AND marianne..... way to go people! Put 'em in the dust and ring that bell! Rick Cowles had better begin to take this subject a bit more seriously. Is there NO sanity?

I DISTINCTLY recall Rick posting a "promise" to get in some faces regarding this very issue, if definative compliance could not be assured well ahead of New Year's Evil. (Six months or so ago?) The NRC is a joke and so are their don't worry, be happy statements. Well Mr. Cowles, in light of the pitiful assurances the NRC have given us, and the number (and magnitude) of several known 'remediated' *failures* to date.....this JUST may be the time!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 14, 1999.