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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5664)	5/18/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

comp.risks Massachusetts nuke plant work-around RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Tuesday 18 May 1999 Volume 20 : Issue 40 FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator [...] This issue is archived at <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.40.html> and at ftp.sri.com/risks/ . [...] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:05:42 +0100 From: "Perry, Mike" <mperry@europe.dg.com> Subject: Nuclear plant Y2K: High risk-readiness or high-risk readiness? I read this last week on Silicon.com's news site (http://www.silicon.com): A US nuclear plant has received a warning from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NCR) after fears were raised over the Y2K readiness of an emergency backup generator. Massachusetts Congressman, Edward Markey, said the NRC has written to the Pilgrim nuclear plant expressing concern that the generator will not be able to keep the facility safe in the event of a Y2K blackout. The plant's owner said the problem will be solved by adjusting the temperature limit for the generator. Well, that's alright then, I don't suppose that the temperature limiter serves any valid safety purpose, nor that running it outside the limits prescribed by the manufacturers carries any RISKs....