What year did you start in nuclear power?

[Mike McFarlin]

What year did you start in nuclear power?   

February 20, 1978 at Oconee.

[Piggyback Beta]

1978

[Rennhack]

July 1989, just a young'un.

[Marlin]

Navy October 1970
Commercial February 1979 just before TMI

[Nuclear NASCAR]

July 1998, after a little time on the fossil side and fleet side of the business.

[RDTroja]

March 18, 1974 -- All Commercial

[OldHP]

How about 1965 - NNPP(EB), NS Savannah Program, Commercial NPP (Mostly D&D and DOE since 1995)!

[SCMasterchef]

1972 TMI

[mjd]

Navy nuke school class 65-2 Mare Is. Davis Besse site '72.

[stownsend]

1976 USAF,1980 Millstone

[jjack50]

Emergency Planning (DCPA) 1976

Prototype (GE KAPL WSO) 1982

Commercial (IP2) 1987

[dea]

Navy Nuclear Power School class 7403, started in Nov. 1973 I think. Commercial  April 1980.

[Laundry Man]

Maine Yankee, June 1979.
LM

[atomicarcheologist]

Commercial power plants 1976 Peach Bottom.
Remediation 1976 Baltimore Md Harbor Thorium in RR tracks and yard.
DOE/DD 1983 Bettis Atomic Power Lab.

[Chimera]

navy Nuke School Class 69-3.  First outage - Main Yankee, 1974

[GLW]

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,...

[Sapp Associates]

Mar 1983

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

[indoprime]

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

[ISOCS]

Bainbridge, MD.   1975

[surf50]

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.

[Old HP]

Just another rookie starting into year # 38  in Health Physics.. my fun began at Pilgrim in 1977.

[Smart People]

1988 for my short aborted Navy nuke career.
1992 Brunswick Decon

[Chimera]

Severely off topic, but . . .

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

[johnnieslingshot]

Charleston Naval Shipyard 01/83

[retired nuke]

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....

[Rennhack]

Severely off topic, but . . .

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

Me either.

[RDTroja]

Severely off topic, but . . .

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

Me either.

I got them confused years ago. I know one of them but not the other.

[old raddog]

January 6-1980, First job was Three Mile Island. Working instruments shop /as we called it then the Sugar Shack.

Times were great. Things have changed so much. So many of the Good HP's have passed. Not a lot of us left.

Lol Lol

[Old HP]

Mr. Troja,

It seems we are even as you have confused me a few times over the years that we have worked together. As to  my NukeWorker ID it seems at 62 I am the younger of the two Old HP / OLDHP, however I registered mine before the older OLDHP registered his. I would gladly change my ID to Retired HP but my NSS/IRM/ARC/CE/ABB/Numanco/ESG/PSESI/Bartlett/BNI/BWB/BHI retirement plan doesn't start until 45 years of service.

[OldHP]

Actually, I realized it a couple of years ago when someone sent me a PM that was obviously not for me.  I checked the listing and redirected the sender!  It is too late now to even think about changing, because there are those who recognize the difference.

Back to the Topic  time!

[RDTroja]

Mr. Troja,

It seems we are even as you have confused me a few times over the years that we have worked together. As to  my NukeWorker ID it seems at 62 I am the younger of the two Old HP / OLDHP, however I registered mine before the older OLDHP registered his. I would gladly change my ID to Retired HP but my NSS/IRM/ARC/CE/ABB/Numanco/ESG/PSESI/Bartlett/BNI/BWB/BHI retirement plan doesn't start until 45 years of service.

The confusion, then, is mutual. Let me know when that retirement kicks in. I am due the same from pretty much the same companies.

Back to the topic, which is already in progress...

[hoghunter]

Started in the days of silkwood,IRM know for IRS and the day when RP was HP. Brunswick FEB. 22 1981 for a company call AVS

[Bonds 25]

March 1997 Calvert Cliffs. Told I would be there 5 weeks.......got 15.

Still get to read/hear about the diver getting WAY too close to the spent fuel assembly every year.

[GLW]

The confusion, then, is mutual...........

The confusion, then,...............is because you guys are frickin' old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RDTroja]

The confusion, then,...............is because you guys are frickin' old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only thing worse than getting old is the alternative.

[Marlin]

   Speaking of old, here is a current picture of the Navy Nuclear Power School at Mare Island that I attended at the beginning of my nuclear career. There was a sign over the entrance that said. "At this school, the smartest must work as hard as those who struggle to pass". Hyman Rickover.
 

[GLW]

  Speaking of old, here is a current picture of the Navy Nuclear Power School at Mare Island that I attended at the beginning of my nuclear career. There was a sign over the entrance that said. "At this school, the smartest must work as hard as those who struggle to pass". Hyman Rickover.

you're all so old the internet doesn't recognize you or your daguerreotype as an image,....

9/14 - and then someone figured out how to patch the old into the new,...dam Marlin, you and that building are lookin' a lot alike:

worn as hell but still standing,....

[Chimera]

  Speaking of old, here is a current picture of the Navy Nuclear Power School at Mare Island that I attended at the beginning of my nuclear career. There was a sign over the entrance that said. "At this school, the smartest must work as hard as those who struggle to pass". Hyman Rickover.
 

And at prototype, some poor soul re-wrote that quote as, "In this school the hardest smart as work as those who mustle pass to strugg."

[OldHP]

The only thing worse than getting old is the alternative.

Every morning that I'm looking at the green side of the grass is the start of another good day!

[Contract SRO]

1977.......till 2008 in house.  Contract since then. All commercial but it is a great life.

[Protectologist]

January, 1974 in the Norfolk Navy Shipyard

[Marlin]

January, 1974 in the Norfolk Navy Shipyard

We may have seen each other, I spent most of 73 there on the Spadefish then a couple of months on the Finback in 74. Not the nicest place to work Navy or Civilian.

[radbrat]

I was there in 75' on the D&S piers...first commercial was not too far away...Surry...1980.

[DrRem]

1976 house mouse Zion Station (Z22). I miss those days

[Marlin]

I was there in 75' on the D&S piers...first commercial was not too far away...Surry...1980.

I did see you there 

[Marlin]

  Speaking of old, here is a current picture of the Navy Nuclear Power School at Mare Island that I attended at the beginning of my nuclear career. There was a sign over the entrance that said. "At this school, the smartest must work as hard as those who struggle to pass". Hyman Rickover.
 

Love the cars  

[Laundry Man]

1976 house mouse Zion Station (Z22). I miss those days

Visited the site last year.  What a shame it was shut down.  The location is beautiful.
LM

[MrHazmat]

Aug. 1974 Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc. in Barnwell, SC, Man what a ride so far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Carolina Jethro]

1983, digging ditches at Robinson for $4.50/hr.

[Chimera]

Visited the site last year.  What a shame it was shut down.  The location is beautiful.
LM

Except in the winter with those sub-zero wind chills coming off the lake.  Otherwise, yeah, great place.

[Bob T]

NPS Mare Island. Class 64-4.

[grantime]

1983 at GGNS

[tagline]

San Onofre Unit 1 in 1980.

[xobxdoc]

Nuke School 8106, 1st outage at SONGS 1984. I remember my first day at SONGS training. Todd Mobley handed me a check. I said "What's this for?" He said it's per diem. "What's per diem?"

[ddickey]

2014

[nukewood]

1980 , Yankee Rowe

[retired nuke]

Nov 1979 - Point Beach (2.25 Rem in 8 days)

[ps3081]

1978-TVA Watts Bar

[radrat]

1987 North Anna Power Station

[dose4dollars]

USAF 1977 Env. Health (Rad tech), 1979 Enewetak Atoll Rad Tech, DOE 1981 and Commercial 1987

[arizonie]

March 1980 at Turkey Point w/ Atlantic.
Steve Romanowicz was the IRM GET Instructor who threw things in class to keep us awake and later that week Brad Oliver (Wackenhut Guard) red badged us.
The SG ISI outage was scheduled during the end of the first quarter of the year and the beginning of the second quarter so we could receive up to 3 Rem in each quarter.
Those were the good old days.

[fabshop64]

June 1983. Spent resin metering tank room 45' of rad waste Calvert cliffs. Sight glass blew out resin was everywhere. Bob Taber and Gene Able were my mentors.....

[dbmac1380]

1977- Duke Power's first HP training class @ McGuire TTC. Richard Wilson and Les Stallings were our instructors. Not many from that class are still in the business-didn't think I'd still be teching, but here I am at ONS. Just started another outage and trying to make it to the end. Retirement is sounding better and better!

[joejack45]

2009 Hanford site. 2013 LANL...2014 Back to Hanford.
Guess that makes me an infant.

[tjpratt]

1984 at North Anna. Have worked D&D since 1994. Haven't been laid off a day since. Man, I miss those summers and winters off. Maybe I am just tired. And yes I am a lurker.

[HousePuke]

Bettis Lab in Pittsburgh 1984.

[Old HP]

The fun began for me in 1977 at Pilgrim Station and it just keeps getting better every outage.  I

[Hanford one]

Started US Army nuclear Oct 1975. commercial July 1977. DOE April 2000. Been in business over 39 years

[Gammatracker]

September 1989 Diablo Canyon 1R4.

[scotoma]

NNPS class 72-04 Bainbridge, Md, then NPTU West Milton. Commercial @ Yankee Rowe 9/1980, $8/hr and $30/day perdiem.

[shehane]

1983 to 1989 - Navy sub tender and boomer.
1989 - Grand Goof

Worked with winners and losers but definitely a bunch of characters.

[yawl28]

Rancho Seco  Fall of 77, those were so long outages!

[RFaunt]

2009 Hanford site. 2013 LANL...2014 Back to Hanford.
Guess that makes me an infant.

Marine Corps CBRN 2005-2013. 1 internship at Catawba. If you're an infant, then I'm still the gleam in my father's eye. 

[Brett LaVigne]

Well, let me see... I guess it was back around nineteen ought... 

[stirfry]

1977 @ MillRock CT.

[_NukeOps_]

06/09/2003 at Hatch Nuclear Plant as a Nuclear Security Officer.   

[Brett LaVigne]

This week marks 25 years.

[GLW]

This week marks 25 years.

                   

[SloGlo]

'76 at da peach, u2 outage.    bounced around operational npps and in different d&d venues butt keep swinging back too outage work.

[Nichole]

Jan. 2013 at PSNS & IMF 

[61nomad]

Oh crap!  This March will be 30 years.  I was only supposed to be on the five year plan!!!

[Bigmo6967]

NNPTC 2000 so I guess that makes it 15 years now. I didn't realize the time had gone by like that.

[Hasher]

I haven't been on the site in a while.  I have enjoyed catching up.  I literally left home to go to a "decon" job in May of 1988 at San Onofre.  Frank Hammaker was my first Site Coordinator and I just read tonight that he is no longer with us.  I gave a "today" notice when I quit my job in Atlanta to drive to California.  I have no regrets ever since and that is saying something in this business (two countries, employer bankruptcies, station closings and god knows how many other things that you learn to appreciate cause it's never boring.  I am still having a blast.  A special thanks to all of you who keep this site rolling too.  I havent been a shift in a long time and I always enjoy when I get a chance to read through the Community news.

[100centsquare]

1978 - Beaver Valley ....Ops, then to RP,I wanted to save lives..

[oldsaltrp]

Navy 73-04, ELT, '77 house RPT Indian Point, 30 yrs contract RP, seems like yesterday

[Gammatracker]

August 1989

[jacksprucinski]

Try 1970 which places me at 45 years at this point.  Started USN riding "boats" moved into commercial at TMI teaching than staying in RP field for the remainder.

[nukewood]

1980 at Yankee Rowe. A means to an end to pay back debts from a failed lumber business. Am still on the road. SS kicks in this month.