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[Marssim]

Titrating? Who titrates anymore??? We just use the magic whatizit machine...   

I've seen pictures of that machine,....I think it's a gin still,...

[cincinnatinuke]

Last I heard we were approved for and hired one more tech but on the environmental side.  I wasnt trying to say you lied only that the info was probably out of date at this point.

Yes, those darn chem techs!

BTW we titrate, but it is with those thingamajigs that do it for us.

[G-reg]

BTW we titrate, but it is with those thingamajigs that do it for us.

Which is like saying a person "cooks" by pushing 6-0-START on a microwave... 

[Marssim]

Which is like saying a person "cooks" by pushing 6-0-START on a microwave... 

Agreed, advancing technology is still a good thing as many time as it is bad though, even I have to admit that titrations "by hand" were half science, and half art,....

sincerely,

marssim (the unknown artist),.....

[cincinnatinuke]

Last I heard we were approved for and hired one more tech but on the environmental side.  I wasnt trying to say you lied only that the info was probably out of date at this point.

Yes, those darn chem techs!

BTW we titrate, but it is with those thingamajigs that do it for us.

I may have mispoke about the job, though it is not posted, "rumor" has it one more position may be opened up in the future.

As for the microwave cooking comment, that could be applied across nearly all of what a chemist does at a power plant these days.  Obtain water, press button, obtain result.  Now if it were only that easy everyone could do it.

[HydroDave63]

  Now if it were only that easy everyone could do it.

that's why it is called "Radio-chemistry", right? I remember fondly the old FM antenna we had taped to the ELT clipboard....

[G-reg]

As for the microwave cooking comment, ...

I'm a former LELT with extensive experience using the Mettler DL-77 Autotitrator.

Just wanted to make sure that you fully appreciate the glass house I have from which to throw such stones.

It's all good...   

[cincinnatinuke]

As they say "We all good!"

The Mettler DL's were what I had in mind when microwave cooking came up.  You gotta admit though, compared to the nav or any manual titration, its as the kids say "the shizzle".

[jnietfeld408]

Hi, 
I also recently graduated with a Masters in Chemistry and am in search of a career.  This week I am interviewing with a coal power plant as a groundskeeper/plant helper position in hopes to move up within the company to eventually end up in nuclear ops or chemistry.  I am not afraid of starting at the bottom as long as in a few years I can move up.  For those of you in ops or chemistry do you think this is a good way of starting my career or do you think I am wasting my time.  I grew up on a dairy farm and am used to working hard for long hours.  Let me know what you think.