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To: eleebee who wrote (23085)	9/8/1998 3:08:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 31646

Ravel --- UP makes more sense for sure! Mark --- the "whisper #" from the site is irrelavant but those of the analysts are very relavant on most issues. TAVA does not have a large following of analysts and where their number comes from is a question but on a widely followed company the whisper of the analysts is important. With TAVA we really need to see a number above the consensus of the 2 for a major breakout

To: eleebee who wrote (23085)	9/8/1998 4:55:00 PM
From: AHM	Respond to of 31646

I do not disagree with you. Whisper numbers are always a toss-up - but unfortunately they often hurt a company's share price when they don't come true. My faith is in what I have posted an analyst who follows TAVA has told me, directly.

To: eleebee who wrote (23085)	9/8/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Free PR - 'Y2K causes nuclear concerns Ismo Savolainen, Timo Tolsa and Jeanette Borzo Paris As it executives and government officials worldwide rush to prepare their nations' systems for the year 2000, some are working double duty by examining the year 2000 readiness at organizations outside their national borders. Finland, for example, is trying to confirm that two Russian nuclear power plants near its border will pass the year 2000 test. Finland's Sateilyturvakeskus -- an organization that reports to a government ministry and cooperates with the Ministry of Trade and Industry on nuclear issues -- has asked Russian authorities for safety information concerning nuclear plants on the Peninsula of Kola and in Sosnovyi Bor. Sateilyturvakeskus isn't terribly worried, because Russia built the plants when the country had no access to Western automation or computer technology and therefore relied heavily on analog technology. The plants' analog devices won't cause any year 2000 failures, but whatever computers the Russians do use might recognize the year 2000 as the year 1900. A Russian nuclear disaster could quickly become a problem for other countries. A nuclear disaster in Sosnovyi Bor could bring nuclear fallout to southeastern Finland and the city of Helsinki in just a few hours, given proper wind conditions. A disaster at the four-reactor plant on Russia's Kola Peninsula could (again with suitable winds) bring a nuclear danger to Lapland, northern Sweden and Norway, sources said. Heikki Reponen, a Sateilyturvakeskus official, has received some information about the plants from Russia but found the material lacking details. He said he is still waiting for further information about plant safety. The Russian authorities, for their part, have said the plants will have no year 2000 problems, Reponen said. The two-reactor Loviisa plant, built in the early 1970s, was based on Russian technology topped off with Western expertise. The Olkiluoto plant, built during the same decade, also has two reactors but is based on Swedish technology. The companies running the plants said they expect no trouble but are still checking and testing systems thoroughly. They said they expect the plants won't need to shut down because of year 2000 problems. Russia and Finland aren't the only countries considering the impact of 2000 on their nuclear plants. Already in the U.S., federal officials this year said electric utilities probably won't be entirely ready to supply power to the nation's businesses and homes on Jan. 1, 2000. Some U.S. nuclear plants could be forced to shut down before Jan. 1, 2000, officials said in May. According to Richard Cowles, year 2000 analyst at TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC, an electric-utility industry consulting firm in Penns Grove, N.J., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have to shut down more than 10% of U.S. nuclear plants after July 1999 because their systems won't be ready to handle the date rollover to 2000. Savolainen, Tolsa and Borzo are journalists affiliated with sister companies to Computerworld in Paris and Finland. computerworld.com