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[DorkBoy]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: DorkBoy

Originally posted by: edro13
It must be cool to be a reactor operator... I here the pay is lousy, but the title and idea of it all is awesome! 🙂

depends what lousy is:
I make around 100,000 sitting on my ass.

But a really bad day at your job can be really bad.
I suppose there isn't much to worry about though, it's pretty safe these days. Do you think we'll see more plants using weapons grade fuel? I'd think they would be really popular in Russia.

We don't have graphite plants

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: DorkBoy
WTF?
No Nuke job in the USA pays 28-40k

http://web.mit.edu/jobs/listings/02-0000056.html

No idea if the post is still valid but 3 years isn't that long for salary to change.

Viper GTS

 

[DorkBoy]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: DorkBoy
WTF?
No Nuke job in the USA pays 28-40k

http://web.mit.edu/jobs/listings/02-0000056.html

No idea if the post is still valid but 3 years isn't that long for salary to change.

Viper GTS

THATS A LAB!!
Not a nuke site

 

[DorkBoy]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: DorkBoy

Originally posted by: FoBoT
:thumbsup: congrats from a ex-Navy nuke (electrician, they only let me be a shutdown reactor operator)

I am also an EX-Navy Nuke - MM

what boat/ship? i was on uss florida (G) from '88 to '92

I was on the USS Virginia and the USS George Washington from 91-97

 

[Amused]

Good news!!

Now if we could just step over the chicken littles and replace ALL our coal and oil fired power plants with nuclear, we'd be golden!

 

[FoBoT]

which prototype did you go through as a student? i was at S5G in Idaho

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Amused
Good news!!

Now if we could just step over the chicken littles and replace ALL our coal and oil fired power plants with nuclear, we'd be golden!

:Q

 

[DorkBoy]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
which prototype did you go through as a student? i was at S5G in Idaho

Windsor, Ct.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: DorkBoy
I was the first to achieve criticality (Reactor Startup, I was the Reactor Operator) today at a U.S. nuclear power plant using MOX fuel.

Excuse my ignorance, but is that a bad thing or a good thing?

I'm guessing good?

BAD

Care to explain or are you just one of those anti-nuke fanatics?

 

[Brule]

Originally posted by: Amused
Good news!!

Now if we could just step over the chicken littles and replace ALL our coal and oil fired power plants with nuclear, we'd be golden!

:thumbsup:

OP: Congrats, what sort of restrictions are you under in what you can say about things like this? I guess the process is public but not many of the specifics?

 

[Skiguy411]

Will we be hearing this in the news sometime soon?

edit:typo

 

[Dubb]

I thought MOX plants were the ones that produced 85% less waste than regular plants, but the downside was that that 15% was convertable into weapons grade stuff, and hence why the US refused to look into it.

it was a few years ago that I read that, so I very well am probably wrong.

 

[maddogchen]

Time to hit that override thingy...like in 24.