# Y2K Nuke plant shutdown?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/y2k-nuke-plant-shutdown/351451>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/y2k-nuke-plant-shutdown/351451 "2006-04-05T18:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/y2k-nuke-plant-shutdown/351451/1 "2006-04-05T18:15:41Z")

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Hi all,

Anyone know of a nuke plant in Pennsylvania (US) that had to shut down due to Y2K problems? Any others? I never heard of any problems and Wikepedia didn’t seem to indicate any.  
thanks  
Robz

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/y2k-nuke-plant-shutdown/351451/2 "2006-04-05T21:07:38Z")

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The Peach Bottom reactor crashed during a Y2K test, but this happened in Feb of 99, not during the actual Y2K rollover.