The full report is available at: http://www.nei.org/library/y2k_readinessreport.pdf I am posting the first page below.

---------------- Nuclear Utility Industry Year 2000 Readiness Status Updated October 1, 1999 (Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure 1 )

Each of the 103 commercial nuclear power reactors has reported the status of their Year 2000 readiness program, based on industry guidelines in Nuclear Utility Year 2000 Readiness. These programs apply to software, hardware and firmware in which failure due to a Y2K issue could interfere with performance of a safety function or impact continued safe operation of the nuclear facility. To date, 95 reactors have completed all remediation and are Y2K ready. There are only ten open items at the eight remaining reactors. Remediation is in progress at the four reactors currently shutdown for refueling outages. One reactors refueling outage is planned for latter this fall and three reactors are remediating a site support system that do not impact reactor operations. Over the past two years, the industry has tested approximately 200,000 items that could be susceptible to Y2K issues. Of these, approximately five percent or 10,000 itemsneeded remediation. The industry has completed over 99 percent of the overall readiness program. Each facility also prepared contingency plans for key Y2K rollover dates using guidance in Nuclear Utility Year 2000 Readiness Contingency Planning. These plans will reduce the impact of internal or external Y2K induced failures. Both industry guidelines are publicly available at the Nuclear Energy Institute web site (http://www.nei.org). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal governments nuclear safety regulator, has been directly involved in the industrys Y2K readiness activity for the past two years, including on-site program reviews. NRC audits and on-site reviews have confirmed that nuclear power plants will continue to generate electricity safely and reliably as we enter the year 2000. The agency also concurs that all safety systems will function if required to safely shut down a plant. Independent NRC and industry audits have concluded that Y2K readiness programs have been properly executed. The nuclear industrys Y2K effort has been closely coordinated with the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), the organization managing the overall Y2K readiness effort of the electric industry. The current industry status leads to high confidence that nuclear generation plants will continue to reliably deliver 20 percent of the nations electricity needs well into the next century. 1 This year 2000 readiness disclosure is made under the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act (Public Law 105-271) ---------------------

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Thanks Factfinder. Do you have the statistics for worldwide compliance?

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), October 04, 1999.