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To: BKrish who wrote (14758)	4/13/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Ron Harvey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

From the London Sunday Times here's an article and a reaction to it: Sunday Times of London, 4/12/1998 > Nuclear fears on millennium > bug in Russia > > by Matthew Campbell > Washington > > > WESTERN intelligence is warning of possible nuclear > "meltdown" in the former Soviet bloc as a result of the > so-called millennium bug. This is expected to cripple > computers worldwide at midnight on December 31, 1999. > > Intelligence sources say some of the 65 Soviet-made civilian > nuclear power plants scattered across the former Warsaw > Pact countries could malfunction as their computers fall > victim to the "Y2K" (year 2000) glitch that makes them > interpret the 00 date as 1900 instead of 2000. > > America, Britain and France have been quick to see the > dangers. But anxieties about Russian nuclear safety, branded > on global memory by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, have not > been diminished by Moscow's assurances that the problem is > "under control". An intelligence source said: "Russia's nuclear > industry is in desperate straits. Throw in Y2K and you could > have a giant Chernobyl on your hands." > > > Even if the Russian government heeds the warnings, it may > not have enough computer experts to go round. Russia has > 29 civilian nuclear reactors, 11 of which are models similar > to the one that exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, releasing > 200 times as much radioactivity as the atomic bombs at > Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other former Soviet bloc countries > have 36 more reactors. Western experts believe many are > already unsafe. > > > ______________________________________- > > > > There is not the slightest doubt in the world that if they don't shut the > plants down there will be a multitude of nuclear 'excursions.' > They have not got a prayer of remediating their systems. > > That means that they are completely enscrewed due to their overwhelming > dependence upon nuclear energy. > > > If I were taking bets, I would put my money on more than one Chernobyl style > disaster. Maybe one that will make Chernobyl look like a greasy spot on a > tie. They are too foolish to shut down. > > > Paul Milne > sunday-times.co.uk > 620