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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (259)3/22/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (3) of 618
 
C.S.Y2K `The specific idea of inter-system testing, across utility boundaries, is an ackowledged part of the Y2K issue. Two areas come to mind where this is required.

1) The NRC requires a near real time data link to all US Nuclear Utilities, specifically to a data acquisition system that monitors the nuclear reactor and other important variables. This obviously needs testing.

2) Most nuclear reactors can not start up (and then produce power), unless they initially get power from somewhere else (the on site AC and DC backups are typically sized only to ensure vital safety systems are powered in a "loss of off-site power" event). Assuming a serious Y2K effect on the grid, which might trip reators and cause blackouts, special care would have to be taken to ensure these power sources for reactor startup (typically dams that might be hundreds of miles away, controlled by other utilities) are available, incluing all the intermediary lines and equipment, with no Y2K problems themselves. The interfacing and testing needed to ensure this is a line item on the list of things to do in any nuclear utility Y2K project.

This is not to say that everything is perfect in the US Electric Utility world, but it could be worse, too.

Fred Swirbul
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