It was always fun explaining to people why things like the half inch globe valve installed in one of the ship's nuclear systems cost $40,000 rather than the $5 they could get it for at the hardware store.
Our QAQC requirements were out of this world.
I was QAQC qualified, radcon qualified, environmental monitor qualified, plus a several ot…
It was always fun explaining to people why things like the half inch globe valve installed in one of the ship's nuclear systems cost $40,000 rather than the $5 they could get it for at the hardware store.
Our QAQC requirements were out of this world.
I was QAQC qualified, radcon qualified, environmental monitor qualified, plus a several other things, some of it specifically one time for this job because no one has EVER done this before kind of stuff (ask me about core-installed reactor plant chemical cleaning, go ahead, I dare you--I can't answer though because... classified, LOL). That was some scary stuff.
I did a lot of paperwork, wrote a lot of the work orders/procedures--and God forbid you get something wrong. Definate career ender. I spent more time doing the paperwork than the actual work.
Yea, whenever people talk about how scary nuclear power is I tell them to look at the Navy's nuclear program. They've been operating reactors under the crushing depths of the ocean since the 1950's without any nuclear disaster incidents. That's because Admiral Hymen Rickover made the program stringent as shit and it's stayed that way to this day.
It was always fun explaining to people why things like the half inch globe valve installed in one of the ship's nuclear systems cost $40,000 rather than the $5 they could get it for at the hardware store.
Our QAQC requirements were out of this world.
I was QAQC qualified, radcon qualified, environmental monitor qualified, plus a several other things, some of it specifically one time for this job because no one has EVER done this before kind of stuff (ask me about core-installed reactor plant chemical cleaning, go ahead, I dare you--I can't answer though because... classified, LOL). That was some scary stuff.
I did a lot of paperwork, wrote a lot of the work orders/procedures--and God forbid you get something wrong. Definate career ender. I spent more time doing the paperwork than the actual work.
Yea, whenever people talk about how scary nuclear power is I tell them to look at the Navy's nuclear program. They've been operating reactors under the crushing depths of the ocean since the 1950's without any nuclear disaster incidents. That's because Admiral Hymen Rickover made the program stringent as shit and it's stayed that way to this day.
I watched people lose their jobs and rank over some of the smallest shit. But there was a reason for that.