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What year did you start in nuclear power?
« on: Sep 08, 2014, 08:22 »
What year did you start in nuclear power?   

February 20, 1978 at Oconee.
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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #1 on: Sep 08, 2014, 08:49 »
1978

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #2 on: Sep 08, 2014, 10:18 »
July 1989, just a young'un.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #3 on: Sep 08, 2014, 10:26 »
Navy October 1970
Commercial February 1979 just before TMI

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #4 on: Sep 08, 2014, 10:34 »
July 1998, after a little time on the fossil side and fleet side of the business.
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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #5 on: Sep 08, 2014, 11:19 »
March 18, 1974 -- All Commercial
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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #6 on: Sep 09, 2014, 12:40 »
How about 1965 - NNPP(EB), NS Savannah Program, Commercial NPP (Mostly D&D and DOE since 1995)!
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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #7 on: Sep 09, 2014, 07:51 »
1972 TMI

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #8 on: Sep 09, 2014, 07:54 »
Navy nuke school class 65-2 Mare Is. Davis Besse site '72.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #9 on: Sep 09, 2014, 08:08 »
1976 USAF,1980 Millstone

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #10 on: Sep 09, 2014, 08:44 »
Emergency Planning (DCPA) 1976

Prototype (GE KAPL WSO) 1982

Commercial (IP2) 1987

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #11 on: Sep 09, 2014, 09:07 »
Navy Nuclear Power School class 7403, started in Nov. 1973 I think. Commercial  April 1980.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #12 on: Sep 09, 2014, 09:23 »
Maine Yankee, June 1979.
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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #13 on: Sep 09, 2014, 10:25 »
Commercial power plants 1976 Peach Bottom.
Remediation 1976 Baltimore Md Harbor Thorium in RR tracks and yard.
DOE/DD 1983 Bettis Atomic Power Lab.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #14 on: Sep 09, 2014, 11:09 »
navy Nuke School Class 69-3.  First outage - Main Yankee, 1974

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #15 on: Sep 09, 2014, 11:37 »
via innate transgenerational epigenetic inheritance:

1946,........ my maternal grandfather was at Crossroads,...

1959,......... my paternal grandfather was a "mission controller" for SNAP,...

personal investment:

1969,...... my first science fair exhibit,....RTGs Promise Free Power for All Americans,....

it was 1969, I was still a dreamer and Star Trek was only 20 years away from being reality,...

the "real world" started in 1980,... ;)


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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #16 on: Sep 09, 2014, 03:29 »
Mar 1983

Back when it was Hide & Seek for a Grand a Week

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #17 on: Sep 09, 2014, 04:42 »
July 1989, just a young'un.

If you're a young'un, what does that make ME? A toddler? LOL

Newport News Shipbuilding -  May 2001
First DOE site (INL) -  Sept 2003
First commercial (Beaver Valley) - Apr 2005

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #18 on: Sep 09, 2014, 06:25 »
Bainbridge, MD.   1975

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #19 on: Sep 09, 2014, 06:50 »
1980. Staring into the inside of a S/G bowl, about to jump in.

Thinking, "What the heck did I get myself into?"

A pretty good career, turns out.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #20 on: Sep 09, 2014, 08:09 »
Just another rookie starting into year # 38  in Health Physics.. my fun began at Pilgrim in 1977.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #21 on: Sep 10, 2014, 06:39 »
1988 for my short aborted Navy nuke career.
1992 Brunswick Decon
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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #22 on: Sep 10, 2014, 06:43 »
Severely off topic, but . . .

I don't think I ever noticed that there is an "OldHP" and an "Old HP" before.

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #23 on: Sep 10, 2014, 07:07 »
Charleston Naval Shipyard 01/83

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Re: What year did you start in nuclear power?
« Reply #24 on: Sep 10, 2014, 07:17 »
1980. Staring into the inside of a S/G bowl, about to jump in.

Thinking, "What the heck did I get myself into?"

A pretty good career, turns out.

79 for me - same thing....
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