My first IP II outage was also in 1980 with Numanco. It was $8 an hour and $33 a day perdiem. It was impressive to the water mark on the basement of the reactor building where it flooded. Made it through that one.
Another time I ended up as a Numanco shift tech (this was they hired the bunch of new house techs the new nothing). A good year that also entailed Westinghouse's first try at nozzle dams. That didn't go so well. Great bunch of characters including Greenfeld, Johnson, Oetken, Bruce Murray (Sky Dog), Pettinarri, Dinch, Dannielle, Gladney, Marg, Crazy George Alger, Short Stick, and the list goes on. That was also the time frame the Henches were in charge and Fish Lips was their Toady.
Last trip was as the ALARA rep for Westinghouse outage management. Was on nights and saw the start of Dessert Storm on the monitors the steam generator guys had.
Lots of rems and memories in that place. Good place to crash was above the chem lab.
LM