[Donna Lee Nardo]

Millstone is as close to the northern part of LI as the Westchester nuke facility is to NYC though; it is fairly close. Brookhaven National Lab offers radiation for cancer patients and perhaps other nuclear medicine... and they are involved in plenty of other stuff not health related at all some of which the Feds have under lock and key. I know they work or did work on a collider that could have weaponry use of some kind.

I vaguely recall sometime not too far before 911 where business and residences along the main road that the Lab is located on -- but much further south on this road -- had their computers and other electronics fried for some reason that went unexplained as far as I remember (this was before 911, so people were not paying as close attention to the matter, including me). It was a mystery in the local papers and I recall that the folks affected were demanding compensation from the county government and/or the power company. I don't know how or if the incidences were ever explained or compensated. Perhaps it was a power spike (right, _Jim?) or -- he he -- a tesla toy mistake?!

[_Jim]

had their computers and other electronics fried for some reason that went unexplained as far as I remember

MORE likely a primary to secondary 'short' on a power transformer (it can and *does* happen on a not too regular basis) than *any* sort of 'EMP' like device.

[_Jim]

A Google search with the terms:

computer fried "power company" -kentucky -stir

returns a lot of personal accounts of computers getting 'fried' by Ready Kilowatt from the wall outlet ....