Nuclear Careers

All things go in cycles.  In the past a plethora of jobs were available in the nuclear sector for Ex Navy Nukes after completing a tour as a nuke. Then the nuclear reactor plant accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island occurred in the late 1970’s to mid- 1980’s.  Almost overnight the growth of nuclear power plants globally came to a screeching halt due to the negative media. Now 30 years later the globe has pretty much about forgotten these incidents.  Since the world is in urgent need of renewable energy sources the return of fission as an option for meeting our future power requirements seems possible. Without doubt odds are probable the nuclear field will be making a comeback.

Interesting enough this week the Obama administration a week ago announced plans in the form of loan guarantees to construct the building of first new nuclear plant in the United States in many years.

Who will be ready to man these new nuclear plants?  That’s right, all you guys who are nukes now and will be looking to leave boats with good jobs with strong futures.

The pay and benefits are is good.  Your talents will be needed as the Navy’s safety record with nuclear power is exemplary. Employers do not need to train you on qualifying at a nuclear power plant. You have been there and done that. Dwell on this, standing watch and getting paid a lot more money for your time, all while having the opportunity to enjoy a great quality of life.  Think about it.

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It has been has been a long time since I have stood Reactor Operator

A while back someone reached out to me out of the blue over the details of the RPCP. As it turned out a buddy of his and him were having a disccusion over the question since it had been nearly 20 years since either had performed a reactor shutdown.

At first, all I could recall was the shim switch. Then I remember the RCP pump switches. Later I remembered Tave, the NI's, the pressurizer swtiches, then the Reduced Frequency pumps meters.

I did not think it was that bad since it was more then 10 years since I stood Reactor Operator.If any of you old RO's out there want to give it a shot by all means have at it. It was pretty cool to go through the instrumentation on the panel especially no one was going to ask me my pump shift limit was.

For that reason I thought it would be a good idea to launch this blog in order to give all nukes past, present or future who were not damamged permanately mentality to contribute to particiapte in this blog.

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