I will reluctantly point out that "intact" doesn't necessarily mean "functional" where a nuke plant is concerned. I suspect a lot of them were shut down when the first nuclear strike warnings went out because of the danger of EMP doing something unpleasant to the control systems. Even those which survived physically (and electronically) intact would need to be brought back online, and trained personnel are going to be rare and hard to find by 7/2000 (or later). Look at the Navy's difficulty in scrounging up nuclear power plant operators for City of Corpus Christi.
Needless to say, that sort of recruiting project is tailor-made for PCs...
- C.
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