NRC May Remove Millstone Oversight

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

NRC May Remove Millstone Oversight - (ROCKVILLE, Maryland) -- 
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon allow Northeast 
Utilities to run the Millstone complex without someone looking over 
its shoulder. After visiting the Millstone Two and Three nuclear 
reactors, some NRC inspectors say they will recommend lifting a 
1996 order that mandated independent oversight. The NRC shut 
down all three reactors for numerous safety violations. N-U is 
decommissioning Millstone One. 

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N-U Says It's Ready For The Year 2000 - (HARTFORD) -- 
Representatives from Northeast Utilities told state legislators they 
have nothing to fear from next year. Power companies are adjusting 
their computers so they don't shut down the plants at midnight on 
January first, 2000. Utilities will put their Y-two-K preparations to 
the test in April. There are fears that existing computers, which 
only read the last two digits of a year, will revert back to 1900 when 
the year changes. 

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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