In looking at the reports that were sent to NERC on 12/09/99 from each of the 10 regional grid members, I noticed that my power supplier (SPP) did not report any work done in the category for nuclear reactors. "0" was filled in for every answer.

I checked the entire report, all 10 regions, for Nuclear plant status and found that seven of the key regions did not report ANY work/status on nuclear plants. They were: ERCOT, FRCC, SERC, SPP, MAIN, WSCC and MAPP.

The three regions that DID include status of their Nukes were 1) ECAR (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana) that showed a range of 26%-44% at remediation stage. 2) MAAC (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, some Canada) that showed a range of 3%-42% in remediation stage. And, 3) NPCC (Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Maine, Michigan (parts of Canada) that showed a range of 28%-52% at the remediation stage.

It appears, that with the East Coast so dependent on Nukes, the NRC cannot take a chance of shutting them down. All the nuke data in these reports comes from East Coast energy providers.

I wonder, if based on the LACK of information from plants located in "other than East Coast" areas, we can assume that a plan to shut them down is in the works? ftp://ftp.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/y2k/reg-assess/mapp_november_1998_results_of_nerc_y2k_readiness_assessment.xls

(just change "mapp" in the above URL to another region (ie SPP or FRCC) to get each regions individual reports.

Also, one other question:

In the 12/21/98 Draft version of the International Atomic Energy Agency's "Guidance for Assessment and Remediation of the Year 2000 Problem to Maintain the Safety of Nuclear Installations" - page 15 under 6.1.3.2 Mitigaiton Strategy, The report says...... Preset facility load or capacity to reduce the consequences to the facility of grid instability or voltage fluctuations.

http://www.iaea.org/ns/nusafe/y2000/y2kguida.htm

Exactly what does that mean? Reduce power load by disconnecting from large customers to avoid sudden power reduction or spikes?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 1999