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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (292)	10/20/1997 2:33:00 AM
From: Jim Rathmann	of 9818

From the NRC web site (as in Nuclear Regulatory Commission) Discussions with vendors of digital protection systems Westinghouse, General Electric, Combustion Engineering, Foxboro, Allen Bradley, and Framatome/Babcock & Wilcox-confirmed the staff's determination that safety-related initiation and actuation systems (e.g., reactor trip system, engineered safety feature actuation system) are not subject to the Year 2000 concern. Licensees of operating nuclear plants are aware of the Year 2000 issue. Based on discussions with the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), it is the staff's understanding that all licensees have initiated plans and actions to address the issue as it relates to the computer systems at their facilities. nrc.gov The NEI is a industry group which is apparently preparing a more detailed listing of actions that are being taken or need to be taken. It seems the NRC is comfortable with this or else they would mandate action by the liscensees. Of course what the hell does the NRC know? I tend to put more credence in an anonymous SI poster cutting and pasting a random e-mail transmission from someone who heard it from a his neighbor, who had talked to someone in the bar who once worked at a nuke plant, etc.

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