Today in History

By The Associated Press Thursday, September 2, 1999; 8:00 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990902/V000021-090299-idx.html

Ten years ago: The United States began shipping a $65 million package of military aircraft and weapons to help Colombia's war against drug lords....

Five years ago: China and Russia proclaimed an end to any lingering hostilities, pledging they would no longer target nuclear missiles or use force against each other.

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Implications of the world's top news

Updated 1:33 PM ET September 2, 1999, By MARTIN SIEFF http://news.excite.com/news/u/990902/13/other-newsalert

... Y2K The State Department Wednesday released assessments of the readiness of 190 countries around the world to adopt its technology to avoid "Y2K" disruptions at the beginning of 2000. State Department experts have said there is still a serious risk of widespread disruption, and even economic havoc, in up to half the countries it has assessed....

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Canada to Test-Burn U.S. Nuke Waste

Friday, September 3, 1999; 3:20 a.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990903/V000279-090399-idx.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers will use a shipment of reactor fuel from New Mexico's Los Alamos lab to test whether Canada's nuclear reactors are suitable to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium.

Canada has committed only to the tests, although the Canadian government has offered to burn as much as 100 tons of the plutonium fuel blend over a 25-year period. The test burns are expected to take several years.

``The test is a step forward in getting rid of nuclear weapons, and the government of Canada is committed to decreasing the number of nuclear weapons in the world,'' said Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy.

The Energy Department and Canadian officials announced an agreement Thursday on the shipment, which will be made later this year. The experiment at the CANDU reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, 100 miles west of Ottawa also will involve a separate shipment of similar fuel from Russia.

The fuel is a mixture of plutonium oxide and uranium oxide. The Energy Department previously announced that about 36 tons of plutonium from the U.S. weapons program will be burned as a mixed-oxide fuel at three U.S. civilian reactors.

The Canadian experiments are designed to determine whether the Canadian reactors -- a different design than the U.S. light-water reactors -- also can use the mixed-oxide fuel as part of a plutonium disposal plan.

Under the agreement, nine mixed-oxide fuel rods containing 120 grams of plutonium will be shipped sometime this fall by truck from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to Sault St. Marie, Mich., where it will cross into Canada, U.S. officials said.

The shipments have caused concern in states along the routes, especially in Michigan. Antinuclear groups and some members of the Canadian Parliament also have voiced opposition to the program, fearing Canada will become a dumping ground for Cold War-era plutonium from both Russia and the United States.

The Nuclear Control Institute, a Washington-based nonproliferation advocacy groups, also has voiced concerns about using the CANDU reactors for plutonium disposal. Other countries, including South Korea, have the same design reactors and may pursue similar programs, said Steven Dolley, the institute's research director.

Both Canadian and U.S. officials characterized the Canadian program as another step to ensure that the plutonium is disposed of safely and kept out of the hands of rogue states and terrorists seeking to use if in weapons.

The disposal plan calls for pure plutonium from weapons pits, or triggers, to be converted into plutonium oxide and then mixed with uranium oxide to create the mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel that can be burned in a civilian reactor much like the conventional uranium fuel.

The fuel rods at Los Alamos already have been processed into MOX fuel, officials said.

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Nuclear fuel testing to go ahead

WebPosted Thu Sep 2 21:49:12 1999 http://www.cbcnews.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/09/02/nucleara990902

OTTAWA - The federal government will go ahead with the controversial testing of nuclear fuel produced from U.S. and Russian warheads by the end of the year.

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The first test will involve 120-grams of mixed oxide fuel at the Atomic Energy of Canada's laboratory in Chalk River, Ontario.

Scientists want to see if the plutonium-oxide, uranium-oxide mixture can be used for fuel in Candu nuclear reactors.

Officials say the material is contained in ceramic pellets which cannot ignite, explode or be inhaled.

Security around the operation will be tight. The American fuel will enter Canada by truck at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

The Russian material will come into the country by ship and arrive at Cornwall, Ontario.

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Canada to test U.S., Russian plutonium fuel

September 2, 5:23 pm Eastern Time http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990902/8n.html

OTTAWA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Canada said on Thursday it has agreed to test-burn excess weapons-grade plutonium from the United States and Russia, despite calls from parliament last year to refuse trade of the nuclear ingredient.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said tests of the mixed oxide fuel, which contains less than three percent weapons-grade plutonium, is consistent with Canada's G7 commitment to help with the safe disposal of the nuclear weaponry.

Under the scheme, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. will test the fuel at its Chalk River, Ontario, laboratories to determine its usefulness in Canada's signature CANDU reactors. Once the fuel is used in a power reactor, the plutonium becomes inaccessible for use in nuclear weapons.

``The MOX fuel test is a step forward in getting rid of nuclear weapons, and the Government of Canada is committed to decreasing the number of nuclear weapons in the world,'' Axworthy said. ``Eliminating the risk of theft and proliferation posed by plutonium weapons helps us reach this goal.''

Tests of the fuel, which is made from uranium oxide, are also planned in the United States and Russia. The Canadian tests, to be conducted over several years, are unique because they will combine fuels from the two countries.

A parliamentary committee last year unanimously recommended that Canada reject the project because it would set a precedent for the trade of weapons-grade plutonium that the producer countries -- Russia and the United States -- should deal with themselves.

``This project will secure a longer life to the nuclear industry, but make Canada the dumping ground for roughly one-third of the excess plutonium generated by the U.S. and Russia,'' said Bill Blaikie, a spokesman for the opposition New Democratic Party, adding that Canadians along the shipping routes for the fuel are being put at risk.

The tiny shipments, weighing about 120 grams -- about the size of two penlight batteries -- are arriving by truck from the United States and by ship from Russia, and would then be trucked several hundred kilometres to Chalk River.

Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale stressed that the shipments are extremely low-risk.

``MOX fuel is stable. It is a solid. It is not soluble. It can't spill. It can't ignite or burn, and it's not a powder that can be inhaled,'' he said in a statement.

``The greatest threat from this is literally being hit by the truck,'' added his spokesman, John Embury.

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Greenland Gets Apology on Inuits

Thursday, September 2, 1999; 2:44 p.m. EDT http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990902/V000731-090299-idx.html

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Denmark's prime minister apologized Thursday for the way his country forced Greenland Inuits out of their homes when a U.S. air base on their arctic island was expanded in 1953.

The apology from Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, which Greenland has demanded for years, came two weeks after a Copenhagen court ruled that the eviction was ``a serious infringement'' on the rights of Greenland's indigenous people and awarded them damages.

``On behalf of the Danish state I apologize to the Inuit, the population of Thule, and to the whole population of Greenland for the way the decision about the move was taken and carried out,'' Nyrup Rasmussen said in a statement.

NATO-member Denmark controls the semiautonomous Greenland, the world's largest island, and allows U.S. military activity there.

During the Cold War, the United States expanded its key air base at Thule, in the northwestern sector, and forcefully moved the indigenous people.

A group of 53 Inuits sued the government for the loss of their homes and hunting grounds on behalf of 611 families, and won the case on Aug. 20. The Copenhagen court award $71,400 in a collective compensation to the families, and ordered the government to pay up to $3,500 to each of the 53 plaintiffs.

In 1995, the government paid $15.5 million to 1,700 Danes and Greenlanders who were exposed to radiation in 1968 when they cleared the wreckage of a U.S. bomber that was carrying nuclear weapons when it crashed near the Thule base.

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Moscow Helsinki Group and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews to Release Landmark Study on Human Rights in Russia's Regions at Helsinki Commission Briefing

Updated 4:17 PM ET September 2, 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/pr/990902/dc-helsinki-commiss

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe announced a forthcoming briefing in cooperation with the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Union of Councils of Soviet Jews:

Human Rights in Russia's Regions Wednesday, September 8 10:00 a.m. -- noon Room 2255 Rayburn House Office Building Capitol Hill Washington, DC

Open to Members, Staff, the Public and Press Questions will be taken after the presentation

Moderator: Ambassador William H. Courtney, Senior Advisor, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Presenters: Ludmilla Alexeeva, Chair, Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) Micah Naftalin, National Director, Union of Councils of Soviet Jews (UCSJ)

Accompanying Ms. Alexeeva and Mr. Naftalin will be Daniel Meshcheryakov, Manager of Operations, MHG, and Leonid Stonov, Director, International Human Rights Bureaus, UCSJ

Background:

The MHG, UCSJ and Human Rights Institute will officially issue their new report, "Human Rights Situation in the Russian Federation, 1998." The report was developed in response to President Yeltsin's May 1996 decision to establish an official network of regional human rights commissions, assisted by local human rights NGOs to be coordinated by the Moscow Helsinki Group.

The report is a summary national report to President Boris Yeltsin based on monitoring conducted in 30 Russian regions through the efforts of the local human rights NGOs. This project, the first attempt by Russian NGOs to organize such an extensive monitoring effort across the country, concludes that the broad rights guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution of the Russian Federation are being massively violated throughout the country by all governing authorities -- including law-enforcement organs and the courts. One central conclusion is that the state is not capable of making its functionaries abide by the law.

The monitoring effort was launched last summer with the aid of a grant for a pilot project from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), closely followed in October by a major grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Both agencies responded to a joint proposal from MHG, the preeminent human rights organization in Russia, and UCSJ, an American grassroots monitoring organization with human rights monitoring bureaus across the former Soviet Union, including two in Russia.

Ludmilla Alexeeva will unveil the landmark first annual report of this monitoring project. Issues to be addressed include freedoms of speech, religion and the press, criminality of the justice system, and the ill treatment of children and military personnel.

Micah Naftalin, and will assess the project and UCSJ's assessment of the recent and dramatic rise in political extremism -- including anti-Semitism -- and the Russia's security apparatus' attack on scientific efforts to monitor nuclear contamination of the seas and other environmental dangers.

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Russians Bust Apparent Nuclear Smuggling Ring

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sep 2, 1999 -- (Reuters) http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=89628

Police in Russia's Far East said on Thursday undercover agents had arrested a woman who tried to sell them radioactive metal, apparently from a base that services the Pacific Fleet's atomic submarines.

A police spokesman told Reuters the metal was an alloy containing uranium. The woman arrested worked at the Zvezda maintenance plant in the town of Bolshoi Kamen near the regional capital Vladivostok, police said.

Russia's NTV commercial television said the woman was a member of a group which had been systematically selling radioactive materials from defense plants in the Far East. NTV said other members of the gang had been detained but police could not confirm this.

NTV broadcast footage of the operation in which police and officers from the Federal Security Service domestic intelligence agency were seen detaining a woman in a van.

The woman had a simple shopping bag containing some metal wrapped in newspaper but without any protective covering. An agent was shown monitoring radioactivity. It was not clear exactly when the arrest was made.

Police said the piece of metal they had confiscated weighed more than three kg (6.6 lbs.) and exceeded radiation safety levels by 2,500 times.

They said the group had been trying to sell the metal for up to $60,000. An investigation is under way into how the group gained access to the material and who the buyers were.

Russia has a huge nuclear submarine fleet but many of the vessels are languishing in dock. Strapped for wages, workers and armed forces personnel have in the past sold equipment to raise money.

Organized criminal gangs have also sought to capitalize on this and take advantage of poor security at bases.

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Argentina Admiral Must Pay Dirty War Survivor

Updated 2:11 AM ET September 3, 1999, By Stephen Brown http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990903/02/international-argentina-military

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Supreme Court has ruled that a notorious admiral must pay from his own pocket part of the compensation for a man whose whole family was killed by a 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

Court sources said Thursday that ex-Adm. Emilio Massera, a member of a bloody junta that human rights groups blame for the deaths of up to 30,000 people, must pay $120,000 to Daniel Tarnopolsky, who lost his parents, brother and sister.

A member of the law firm representing Tarnopolsky told Reuters the ruling could set a legal precedent for other survivors of the "Dirty War," a period when the military cracked down on its political opponents.

"It's the first time a member of the military dictatorship has been made by the courts to pay compensation for the kidnap and disappearance of people during the reign of terror," said the lawyer from Estudio Stein Badillo who asked not to be named.

"For Daniel, the money is secondary. What is important for him is the act of justice, which will allow his family to rest in peace," the lawyer said.

The Supreme Court ruling confirms a 1991 decision that Massera pay part of a $1.25 million compensation package for Tarnopolsky.

Only 18 years old at the time, Tarnopolsky was not home when a military "death squad" came for his parents Daniel and Blanca, his brother Sergio and his sister Betina in July 1976, the first year of the dictatorship.

His lawyer said Sergio Tarnopolsky had been involved in student politics -- which at that time put the entire family at risk of being kidnapped, tortured and killed.

Their precise fate was never known and their remains never found, like thousands of victims of the Dirty War. As such, the ruling says Daniel should be compensated for his family's "illegal deprivation of liberty and subsequent disappearance."

A lower court ruling in 1994 said Massera might have to pay up to $1 million of the total compensation, as he was considered responsible for the deaths.

But it is a matter of principle for Argentine human rights campaigners and relatives of those who disappeared that until the former Dirty War officers reveal the whereabouts of their remains, their loved ones remain "disappeared," not dead.

Therefore Massera's participation in the compensation payout was reduced to $120,000 of the $1.25 million package.

Tarnopolsky, who lives in Paris with his wife, is expected in Buenos Aires Friday. Tarnopolsky first sued Massera, another admiral and the Argentine state in 1987.

Massera was head of the Argentine navy at the time of the 1976 coup that toppled the elected government of Isabel Peron. He formed part of the first three-man ruling junta.

Like other junta officers, Massera was put on trial after democracy was restored in 1983. Sentenced to life in jail, Massera was pardoned by President Carlos Menem.

Now 73, he was placed under house arrest last year by a federal judge investigating the wholesale theft of babies from women held in military torture camps. The babies were adopted illegally by military couples.

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Palestinians Say Prisoner Dispute With Israel Solved

Updated 6:07 AM ET September 3, 1999 http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990903/06/international-mideast-leadall

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian official said Friday a dispute over Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners had been resolved and the sides were putting the final touches to an accord reviving their Wye River peace deal.

"The issue of prisoners is no more an obstacle...The sides are now putting the final touches to the document and doing the last-minute drafting," said the official, who declined to be identified. "But it's less likely there will be a signing today."

U.S. and Israeli officials said they could not confirm agreement had been reached on the emotive issue holding up implementation of the first Arab-Israeli peace deal Prime Minister Ehud Barak has negotiated since taking office in July.

"No, I can't confirm that," a U.S. official said when asked about the report of a breakthrough. He said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Jerusalem on a Middle East peace mission, was in contact with Israel, the Palestinians and Egypt to try to break the deadlock.

"You have to really nail everything down before you have a final deal...We believe it's possible to reach agreement," the U.S. official said. "Obviously the schedule is in flux and it's not clear what is going to happen today."

Egypt had hoped to host a signing ceremony attended by Albright Friday at its Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh. The sides have been at odds over the number of prisoners to be freed with Israel saying about 350 and the Palestinians demanding 400. The Palestinian official did not say how this was resolved.

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New rules will ease transport of nuclear waste

Updated 11:48 AM ET September 1, 1999http://news.excite.com/news/u/990901/11/us-ca-west-1-2

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) New rules from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will make it easier for utilities to ship nuclear waste to the proposed dump site at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

Plant operators will not have to assess the risks of transporting their waste to the site, because according to the Las Vegas Review- Journal, utilities can use a generic model involving transport by truck or train to the site.

Opponents of the repository say they are reviewing the new rule to determine their next action.

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NetTrends: The Other Y2K Problem -- Hacker Attacks

Updated 2:52 AM ET September 2, 1999 By Dick Satranhttp://news.excite.com/news/r/990902/02/net-column-nettrends

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Billions of dollars have been spent to make sure the world's computers are ready for the year 2000 -- but hackers of all descriptions are going to try their best make them fail, security experts say.

With just a few months to go before computers' clocks change over to the new year, engineers are busy locking down systems whose code has been certified as free of the Y2K problem -- the inability to read the year in date-activated programs.

But some system managers may be ignoring another potentially serious problem posed by intruders who use the frenzy and confusion of the Y2K changeover as a cover for malicious attacks.

"The threat ranges from the pranksters -- people who celebrate the millennium by hacking a few computers -- to cyber-terrorists who want to bring modern civilization to its knees," said Constance Fortune, vice president for computer consultant Science Aplications International Corp.

The world's largest computer security company, Network Associates (http://www.nai.com), said it is launching a new campaign this week to publicize the threat with a new Web site that will list the potential dangers of Y2K hackers.

"Network administrators will be looking for system failures -- but not necessarily virus writers," said Sol Viveros, of Network Associates. "We've started this initiative to let people know that they really do have to worry about this."

When systems crash at the start of the year 2000, technicians are going to be quick to blame the Y2K problem, which is exactly the kind of vulnerability that malicious hackers love to exploit.

All crashes look alike, but the root causes differ dramatically. The teams assembled to manage computers through the rocky early days of the new year will probably be heavily weighted with systems experts who may not have much expertise on computer intrusions.

"You need people who recognize the signs of an attack, and who are trained to shut down the system as soon as possible when it hits," said Fortune.

As long as the system keeps running it can be released "into the wild," and create a broader infection over the Internet. Outbreaks this year like the Melissa and Chernobyl viruses hit thousands of computers and caused millions of dollars worth of damage.

The Chernobyl virus, in particular, draws a parallel to the Y2K problem because it is a "date-activated" virus. A hacker created a program that was triggered when computer clocks hit the anniversary of the Soviet nuclear plant meltdown, one of the technology world's worst-ever disasters.

Y2K already appears to be inspiring a wave of hackers who like to create digital time bombs.

"We've been monitoring various virus-writing newsgroups (Internet bulletin boards) and we've seen quite a few postings, with people discussing the fact they plan on creating viruses that will begin striking during the millennium," said Network Associates' Viveros.

"We're already seeing lots of (Y2K hacker) postings," added SAIC's Fortune.

The programs that erase hard disk drives or cause system failures could be implanted deeply within a user's system, where the remain hidden from sight until the date change. Viveros said some systems managers may lock down their systems prematurely and miss the hidden invaders.

SAIC's Fortune said the programmers handling the heavy amounts of programming to fix Y2K problems may have left "backdoor" openings for hackers to enter.

One group reported to be targeting such openings is Streets, which first hit City of London financial district computers on June 18.

Space Rogue, editor of Hackernews (http://www.hackernews.com), an Internet-based service that reports on hacking exploits, said the threat of such attacks is probably overestimated because "it requires a lot more knowledge than most people have."

Rogue said that attacks are "possible" but the security industry is overplaying the threat to build up its own services. "Fear sells," said the editor.

At Network Associates, Sol Viveros said it's important to raise the alarm because it reminds computer users to prepare for potential problems. A global alert helped dramatically reduce the impact of Melissa and other virus-type outbreaks this year. Once notified of a threat, system administrators can shut down their systems and run anti-virus software.

His company will be among the scores of software firms that will be celebrating new year's this year with round-the-clock surveillance of customers' computers, trying to spot threats before they cause too much damage.

"It all boils down to security awareness," said SAIC's Fortune.

(The NetTrends column appears weekly. If you have comments or questions, you can send e-mail to dick.satran(at)reuters.com.)

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Lockheed Space Chief Leaves for Allegheny

By Tim Smart Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 3, 1999; Page E03 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/03/093l-090399-idx.html

Lockheed Martin Corp. announced yesterday that Thomas A. Corcoran, president and chief operating officer of its space business, is retiring to become chief executive of Allegheny Teledyne Inc., a Pittsburgh industrial conglomerate.

Corcoran, 55, had been viewed both inside and outside Lockheed as a potential chief executive of the $26 billion Bethesda aerospace giant.

A former veteran General Electric Co. executive known as a demanding and results-oriented manager, Corcoran took over Lockheed's critically important $7.5 billion satellite and missile business in October after a problem-plagued period. These included several failures of a controversial antimissile weapon for the Air Force, delays in deliveries and launches of satellites, and the loss of a key rocket contract to arch rival Boeing Co.

The company's rockets suffered a string of malfunctions last year and early this year, causing more than $2 billion worth of damage to military and intelligence agencies' reconnaissance satellites.

Next week, Lockheed is expected to publicly release an independent panel's report criticizing the company for failing to adequately supervise its workers and for putting too much emphasis on cost reduction at its space businesses.

Corcoran previously headed Lockheed's electronics unit, the company's second-largest, with $7.3 billion in sales, managing to more than double its sales and substantially increase its profit margins during his tenure. He was widely lauded on Wall Street and frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Lockheed's chairman and chief executive, Vance D. Coffman, who has had a rocky relationship with the investment community.

"Tom was really viewed as Mr. Turnaround at the company," said Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Byron Callan. "I am surprised by it, and it creates another hole for them to fill in the space business."

Albert E. Smith, who runs Lockheed's main space and missiles division in Sunnyvale, Calif., was named acting head of the sector.

Corcoran's departure comes at a time when shareholders are unhappy with Lockheed's financial performance and its stock price, which is down nearly 12 percent this year. Shares closed yesterday at $36.81 1/4, down 6 1/4 cents.

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CP&L Brunswick 1 N.C. nuke seen at 100 pct Friday

September 2, 3:25 pm Eastern Time http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990902/3j.html

NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Carolina Power & Light Co. (NYSE:CPL - news) said Thursday its 754 megawatt (MW) Brunswick 2 nuclear power plant was back at full power and that the neighboring 767 MW Brunswick 1 would be at full power by midday Friday.

Both units, in Southport, North Carolina, were shut Monday as a precaution ahead of Hurricane Dennis as it moved up the eastern seaboard.

``Unit 2 is at full power. Unit 1 is at 30 percent and we expect it to be at 100 percent at this time tomorrow,'' said CP&L spokesman Mike Hughes.

Unit 1 was kept out of service a bit longer to give engineers a chance to complete all Y2K compliance work needed in its control room.

``We can now say that all of our units are Y2K ready,'' Hughes said.

The company also said power had been restored to almost all of its customers after Dennis lashed its service territory with strong winds and heavy rain.

About 55,000 CP&L customers were without electricity at the peak of the storm. Overall, however, close to 120,000 customers were without electricity at some point during the week as Dennis rolled slowly northward just offshore.

Hughes said storm damage was limited to the distribution lines that bring power to homes and businesses, and that the high-voltage transmission lines that make up the core of CP&L's power grid were not damaged.

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Warning Sirens Sound (Florida)

Updated 3:39 PM ET September 2, 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/r/990902/15/fl-state-news-6 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/florida/story.html?s=v/rs/19990902/fl/index_2.html#6

Warning Sirens Sound - (ST LUCIE, FLORIDA) -- Eighty-seven-sirens sounded at the Saint Lucie nuclear power plant today. But there's NO need to panic. Officials say they were performing tests to make sure all the alarms work in case there's a real, live emergency. They say the drill was a complete success.

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Nuclear Plant Gets Renovations (Ohio)

Updated 5:24 AM ET September 3, 1999 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/ohio/story.html?s=v/rs/19990903/oh/index_1.html#3 http://news.excite.com/news/r/990903/05/oh-state-news-3

(PAINESVILLE, OHIO) - The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is about to undergo a big change. It's going high-tech. Lake County and First Energy will split the six-Million dollars needed to install the state of the art equipment.

Nuclear Plant Gets Renovations - (PAINESVILLE) -- The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is about to undergo a big change. It's going high-tech. Lake County and First Energy will split the six-Million dollars needed to install the state of the art equipment.