Aging Nukes - Here you go, Trip
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110620/...ng_nukes_part1

(too huge to copy and paste). Thoughts?

I am transferring to Rivers Ops. I am becoming a Dam Engineer. LOL

Any questions? LOL

:lol:

Did that go through? Last I knew you were headed that way...

I am transferring, but the rules are getting more and more strict for us at least. More and more paperwork is needed to do anything. I see the NRC getting a lot tougher on issues, not easing the slack on us. This job got 100x more stressful after Japan.

Year long investigation, lol. That sounds like my monthly operating experience review.

Nice :lol:

We seem to have the older nucs up here

These guys have had a lot of fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis-B..._Power_Station

Yeah I read about that one before. Scary shit.

So, are all these issues just the result of them trying to operate on the cheap or are there a lot of "out of sight, out of mind" parts or what?

It's a mixture of things, different sites operate to different license agreements with the NRC about leaks and such. We have engineers devoted solely to monitoring the buried piping program. It's a hard job, I wouldn't want to do it.