> Jeg fikk inn denne adressen angående år 2000 og atomkraftverkene i
> Russland. Har disse forholda blitt vurdert før?
>
> http://www.spb.ru/times/current/2000.html
>
Situasjonen er nok _langt_ værre enn en du tror. Siden oktober-
revolusjonen ifølge den vestlige kalender ikke skjedde i oktober vil
mange av reaktorene _eksplodere_ på ett langt _tidligere_ tidspunkt på
grunn av denne 2000-årsfeilene. Kanskje allerede i _år_.
hm.
Bare for å vise fram skvipet det henvises til:
Legg merke til "_vestlig_ etteretning". Det største problemet for
atomkraftverkene er _sikkert_ denne 2000årsfeilen (eller Y2K som de så
tøfft refererer til). Utslipp i fra feks Sellafield skyldes _sikkert_
2000-årsfeilen, kanskje alt som ikke funker med tekniske saker og ting
skyldes 2000-årsfeilen.
> 2000 Glitch Poses Nuclear Threat
>
> THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
>
> Western intelligence is warning of possible nuclear "meltdown" in the
> former Soviet bloc as a result of the so-called millennium bug, The Times
> of London reported on Sunday.
>
> The millennium bug is a glitch in many of the world's computers that is
> expected to cripple them worldwide at midnight on December 31, 1999.
>
> Intelligence sources say some of the 65 Soviet-made civilian nuclear power
> plants scattered across Russia and the former Warsaw Pact countries could
> malfunction as their computers fall victim to the "Y2K" (year 2000)
> glitch, which makes them interpret the 00 date as 1900 instead of 2000,
> The Times reported.
>
> "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,'" the paper reported.
>
> An intelligence source was quoted by The Times as saying, "Russia's
> nuclear industry is in desperate straits. Throw in Y2K and you could have
> a giant Chernobyl on your hands."
>
> It emerged last week that William Daley, the U.S. commerce secretary, is
> to host an international millennium bug conference this year, indicating
> the seriousness with which the U.S. White House views the problem, the
> paper said.
>
> "Nuclear safety is bound to be an important item on the agenda," The Times
> reported, adding, "Al Gore, the ÆU.S.Å vice president, also raised Y2K at
> a recent meeting with Viktor Chernomyrdin, the former Russian prime
> minister."
>
> In a recent circular to all American power plants, the U.S. Nuclear
> Regulatory Commission warned that "control room display systems, radiation
> monitoring and emergency response" are particularly at risk, The Times
> reported.
>
> "The Y2K problem is urgent because it has a fixed, non-negotiable
> deadline," that circular concluded. "This matter requires priority
> attention because of the limited time remaining to assess the magnitude of
> the problem."
>
> Even if the Russian government heeds such warnings, it may not have enough
> computer experts to go round, The Times reported.
>
> Former Soviet bloc countries have 36 Soviet-made civilian nuclear
> reactors, while Russia itself has 29. Of Russia's, 11 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.
>
> The oldest Chernobyl-style nuclear power plant is the Leningrad Nuclear
> Power Plant, or LAES, an accident-prone power station just 80 kilometers
> west of St. Petersburg. LAES's reactors were actually the prototype for
> Chernobyl's. Russian officials say the LAES reactors have been upgraded
> since the Chernobyl accident revealed vulnerabilities in them.
>
> LAES has been plagued with problems - ranging from a hunger strike last
> year by unpaid engineers, who continued to work monitoring the reactor's
> safety despite dizziness and fainting spells, to an overburdened nuclear
> waste storage facility.
>
> In 1992, an accident at LAES released radiation outside the plant. Last
> week saw conflicting reports that another accident in March had again
> released a minor amount of radiation outside the plant.
>
-- Aslak Raanes