Dominion Resources Inc.'s Millstone 3 nuclear reactor in Connecticut has resumed operation after automatically shutting down Thursday. The turbine was taken off line because of vibrations.

The reactor was operating at 47 percent of capacity yesterday morning, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

No estimate is available on when the unit will return to full power, Pete Hyde, a spokesman for Richmond-based Dominion, said in a phone interview.

The 1,131-megawatt Millstone 3 reactor is one of two active units at the Waterford plant. The 866-megawatt Unit 2 is operating at capacity, according to the NRC.

AMF TO SOON GET NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

William McDonnell will join AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc. as vice president and chief financial officer at the end of the year.

Since 2000, McDonnell has been with Rent-Way Inc., an operator of rental-purchase stores with 791 locations in 34 states. He is Rent- Way's CFO, AMF said in a news release.

"Bill McDonnell will be a great addition to our senior management team," said Fred Hipp, president and CEO of Mechanicsville-based AMF.

AMF is an owner and operator of bowling centers, with more than 350 in the U.S.

VA. COMPANY PROPOSES WIND FARM IN COLORADO

GREELEY, Colo. - -- A Virginia company has proposed a wind farm on several hundred acres near Grover in northeast Colorado.

Greenlight Energy Inc. of Charlottesville hopes to invest about $400 million in the Cedar Creek Wind Energy Project next to the Pawnee National Grassland.

The project would provide 300 megawatts of electricity.

Land would be leased from private landowners.

Amendment 37, approved by Colorado voters last year, requires the state's largest utilities to generate 10 percent or more of their electricity through renewable energy sources by 2015.

THE NATION

STOCK TRADES START FOR VIACOM'S DIVIDED UNITS

NEW YORK - -- Viacom Inc. took another step toward splitting up yesterday when shares of the media companies it will become began trading on a preliminary basis.

The split, to be completed by the end of the year, will create a company based on Viacom's cable networks, including MTV and VH1, and another built around CBS and a group of TV and radio stations and other properties.

Shares in the two companies, to be called Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., began trading on a preliminary, or "when-issued," basis on the New York Stock Exchange. Their ticker symbols are

VIA.B.WI and CBS.WI, respectively.

The distribution of the new shares will be one-half of a new Viacom and one-half of a CBS share for each old Viacom share held.