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- Special Section Fifth Annual Nuclear News Vendor/Contractor Profile Section - Power Nuclear plant safety systems are Y2K ready. AmerGen makes anather purchase at Nine Mile Point. Illinois Power, AmerGen sign definitive agreement for sale of Clinton station. D.C. Cook plant's restart scheduled for April and September 2000. Destinations, directions set for Unicom. NRC requests comments on KI proposal. NRC upgrades public petition process. Change in NRC's reporting regs in the offing. San Onofre gives teachers a look at a nuclear plant. - Operations The Nuclear News interview-Jackson: Past accomplishments and future plans. - Meetings ANS Annual Meeting: The Atom in the Next Millennium. Embedded Topical Meeting: Nuclear Station License Renewal. - International Maintaining nuclear's role in the United Kingdom requires plant decisions. Sellafield MOX Plant commissioning can begin. Political parties in Belgium seek to phase out nuclear. Forty years in sight for Spain's Santa Maria de Garona. German government proposes 2020 for phaseout completion. Ukraine's Chernoby1-3 down for maintenance, repair outage. BN-350 fast reactor in Kazakhstan to be decommissioned. WANO 1998 world performance indicators relow and very low radiation doses. Framatome interested in modular HTR. - Isotopes and Radiation Thai jewels, Examined using accelerator technology, challenge views on civilization. Test may reduce surgeries and cancer treatment costs. PET increases survival for melanoma patients. ANS Position Statement on the Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation Health Effects(LLRHE) Committee. - Waste Management Senate committee approves substitute spent fuel management legislation. Texas LLW Authority abolished in late action. S.C. Governor establishes task force on LLW issues. Bruce dry storage facility licensing review to go ahead. GTS duratek acquires Hake; contracts awarded. - Research Newly discovered elements detected by scientests at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory support stability theory. - Education Enrollment levels for nuclear engineering and health physics decrease. - Industry Eurisys Mesures acquires two companies; other business developments. Westinghouse gets I&C and fuel deals; other contracts. - Standards Clarification to answer questions on ANSI/ANS-19.6.1-1997. Comments on draft standard requested; two standards withdrawn.