From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,873e3ac877e7b6b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-16 19:30:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout Date: 16 Aug 2003 19:30:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3F3E46EE.50205@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.242.17.220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1061087418 29087 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2003 02:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2003 02:30:18 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41620 Date: 2003-08-17T02:30:18+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > The only way to avoid this problem is to keep sufficient "reserve" > capacity on-line to avoid the instability. For decades this number has > been known to be 15%. But when the Federal government got into the > power "deregulation" business, they decided that that guideline was too > c onservative. Guess what, it isn't. This is just what I fear may happen in Russia in near future. The whole Russian electricity system is united now, and the main chief is a political heavyweight, well-known in Russia as the commander of mass privatization in 1991; and he is now fighting for somehow similar "deregulation" of the national electricity system. The effect may be true catastrophic, and then (if actually happens) may even have serious political consequences - initially internal, but then worldwide, even USA will be worried enough if things will go this way. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia