I'll be more than happy to leverage my experience from my Nuclear Engineering days to help Internet companies plan for these redundant power plants. Each load of fuel would be good for about 18 to 24 months of sustained operation, and we could even design it so that should it experience an explosion, there is no confusion or expectation on the performance and viability of colocated and nearby equipment. Chris ---------- From: John Curran[SMTP:jcurran@bbnplanet.com] Sent: Friday, August 08, 1997 12:45 PM To: Robert T. Nelson Cc: Christopher Masto; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem. At 11:39 8/8/97, Robert T. Nelson wrote:

If you're in a 24x7, customer-driven market, you should have either:

a) enough go-juice (via fuel contractor) to go until the grid is on-line

Did you read the previous email from jhawk? There is an extremely large generator at one of the affected facilities (read: cogeneration plant) but no amount of fuel helps if the plant is damaged in the explosion. /John p.s. No, we've have not deployed redundant power plants (yet)