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The new year enters with a bang worldwide. Fireworks suppliers experience triple the normal seasonal demand. Internet eCommerce takes off! In response, call centre and warehouse construction barely keeps up. Ray Kurzweil -"'The Age of Spiritual Machines", and Bill Joy - "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" re-spark discussion on the future blurring of conventional roles between humans and technology. Athletes from around the world prepare to meet in Sydney, Australia in September at the Olympic 2000 summer games - but isn't it their winter? |
CANDU nuclear units worldwide pass into the Year 2000 uneventfully - Way to Go! Cessna aircraft celebrates delivery of over 180,000 aircraft. More than half of all aircraft flying worldwide are Cessnas. Bruce Nuclear complex leased by Ontario Power Generation to British Energy in twenty year lease. AECL completes development of enhanced CANDU 6 control room. First delivery is to Qinshan CANDU in China. |
A set of criteria for evaluating workplace changes is developed for use by plant Operations staff. The criteria emphasize operationally related context and task factors and are continuing to be refined through volunteer application by Operations staff in several settings. Paper on 'Process Monitoring Behaviour During Normal Operation' presented at the International Ergonomics Association conference in San Diego, California. Functional and performance requirements for control room annunciation, and economic rationale for annunciation improvement established for Ontario Power Generation nuclear plants. |
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