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shovelheadred:
.............Does anyone besides me remember IRM, RAD Services, or ARC?.........Bartlett hasnt always been the BIG DAWG...........

halflifer:
Yep, I worked for all of them, plus NSS, DNI, CE/PSESI and a few others. A lot of us bitch about The Big Blue B, but I can't think of any of the old companies that treated me as well, as consistantly as Bartlett.

Camella Black:
Yep, I do. My dad started out with I.R.M and was a site coord at a couple of sites back in the 1970's. He also worked for Chem Nuclear when they used to have techs on the road. Henry started with I.R.M. back in 1981 at Turkey Pt, we loaded up and left S.C. for less than $5 per hour, don't remember the per diem, but I do remember it was 72 hours per week for 6 weeks then a week off.

I also remember Mr. Leonard (I think Bobby) jumping in the pool at the start of the outage party.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I like Bartlett and the people I know there, but it seems like we were more of a family back then, probably because the jobs were longer and we were away from home a lot. I know we hosted many a dinner, bbq or Holiday celebration at our house, boy those were the days...

Hey if anyone out in tech land is away from home, the door is always open, just email us here in S.C. and we'll give you directions.

Rennhack:
We should put together a brief history of the nuclear buisness.  I know from talking to a lot of Rad Safety people that that portion of the buisness is ripe with stories.  If we could at least get dates, and who bought who, and who were main players with each company.  I think that would be a valuable article to preserve some of history.

Phurst:
I started with Numanco in '79. The first person I met? Bubba Joe Whorley. What a start! When Chuck Pierce ran the company it was a gas! It was all run and gun. Chuck would send private planes to pick up wayward techs to get them to a job site. He was one of a kind and I will never forget him. Next company was Rad Services in 1980. I wanted to go to Oconee so I had to work for them. They gave me a per diem check when I got to my first site, Beaver. I went to cash it and the bank wouldn't....insufficient funds. That gave me pause. As it turned out, Rad rolled its account every Tuesday and I had caught them in a rollover. Those days were the good old days. We will never see them again. A part of me says, Thank God!.

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