A Half-Century of Reliability: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

[Marlin]

I did a number of outages there in the late 70s and early 80s it was one of the cleanest best run plants I had been to at the time.

A Half-Century of Reliability: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

https://www.powermag.com/a-half-century-of-reliability-calvert-cliffs-nuclear-power-plant/

[Bonds 25]

Where it all started for me in 1997.....also happened to be the outage where the diver tried to huge a fuel assembly in the SFP.

[RDTroja]

I did a number of outages there in the late 70s and early 80s it was one of the cleanest best run plants I had been to at the time.

A Half-Century of Reliability: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

https://www.powermag.com/a-half-century-of-reliability-calvert-cliffs-nuclear-power-plant/

I was thinking the same thing... we arrived on the same day (July 5, 1979 I think.)

After leaving in 1981, I returned in 1989 and stayed until then end of 2003... went house in 1992. Being the closest plant to Washington, D.C. meant we had a lot of foreign visitors, so they kept the place looking very nice. I forget how many acres of Wildlife Preserve they had but it was alot including Camp Canoy, the old Boy Scout Camp. Full of eagles, turkeys, deer (including a population of albino deer) and too many others to name.  The meeting room high on a hill overlooking Chesapeake Bay made it hard to pay attention. The Cliffs full of Megalodon teeth that would expose museum quality fossils every time a piece eroded away. Not to mention it was an hour from home.

[Marlin]

I was thinking the same thing... we arrived on the same day (July 5, 1979 I think.)

After leaving in 1981, I returned in 1989 and stayed until then end of 2003... went house in 1992. Being the closest plant to Washington, D.C. meant we had a lot of foreign visitors, so they kept the place looking very nice. I forget how many acres of Wildlife Preserve they had but it was alot including Camp Canoy, the old Boy Scout Camp. Full of eagles, turkeys, deer (including a population of albino deer) and too many others to name.  The meeting room high on a hill overlooking Chesapeake Bay made it hard to pay attention. The Cliffs full of Megalodon teeth that would expose museum quality fossils every time a piece eroded away. Not to mention it was an hour from home.

Your memory is better than mine. July 5, 1979!!! Yes the proximity was a plus for me too we could pick one museum in the Smithsonian to visit for a weekend. Lorie's favorite artist is Georgia O’Keeffe and one time the Modern Art museum had a wing full of her paintings. Another time the Natural History museum had a wing dedicated to first ladies dresses (ho-hum) Lorie loved that one, I on the other hand liked the bug zoo there that was on display at the same time.

[RDTroja]

Your memory is better than mine. July 5, 1979!!! Yes the proximity was a plus for me too we could pick one museum in the Smithsonian to visit for a weekend. Lorie's favorite artist is Georgia O’Keeffe and one time the Modern Art museum had a wing full of her paintings. Another time the Natural History museum had a wing dedicated to first ladies dresses (ho-hum) Lorie loved that one, I on the other hand liked the bug zoo there that was on display at the same time.

I love that bug zoo. I was there once when one of the Entomologists was handling a huge Tarantula and it started to get away from her. She asked an intern working there to help, but he had a Giant Cockroach in his hand. He tried to hand me the cockroach (it was about 6 inches long) but I told him I would rather grab the Tarantula. They didn't want me doing that because apparently they are very delicate. I was not to upset about not getting the opportunity..