Any Navy Nukes, or People who work(ed) in the Nuclear Industry on Here

[RR Fan Dan]

I just met @SeabeckRedneck on here and learned he is one. By Navy Nuke I mean people who attended Naval Nuclear Power School or worked in the Nuclear Industry.

US Navy 1985-1991
Boot camp and A school at Great Lakes Illinois
I graduated Navy Nuclear Power School Class 8606,Orlando FL.
Went to Prototype at S5G Idaho Falls and then ELT School
Served on SSBN641 Simon Bolivar in Charleston SC and SSN609 Sam Houston in Hawaii.

Nuclear Industry 1991-2025

1991-2003
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Lusby Md- Radiation Safety Technician/Foreman-Radwaste Group.

2003-2005
Envirocare of Utah/Energy Solutions- RSO and Transportation Manager at the Clive Site

2005-2025
Various decommissioning and clean up projects worked for 5 different companies as Project Managers

Enercon
Newex
Penhall
NorthStar
Chase Environmental

It’s a very small Industry, if you are or were in it, chances are we probably might know each other.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

41 views and no votes. Was it something I said?

 

[KWolfcale]

Well we likely crossed paths somewhere along the way. Worked QA/QC and NDE management on the construction of Byron station, Midland and Nine Mile Point stations in the mid to late 70s and early 80s. Worked for SGT Steam Generator and Reactor vessel head replacements at Point Beach (83 & 96), DC Cook, St Lucie, Calvert Cliffs (U-1 & U-2), Oconee, ANO 1 and Prairie Island. Worked 5 years at the Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls which included some work at the Naval Reactor training facility. Retired now but had a hell of an interesting run working both Nuclear power generation and government related nuclear work.

 

[terrywalker]

EM"A" school Great Lakes 3/71- 8/71
USS Huntington (DD781) 8/71-2/72
Nuclear School Bainbridge Md. 3/72
D1G Prototype West Milton 9/72
Uss Bainbridge (CGN 25)4/73 -9/76
Terry W.

 

[71RRHI]

I was not a nuke, but spent four years on SSN 696 New York City. 1989-1993 at Pearl Harbor.

 

[DeltaV]

41 views and no votes. Was it something I said?

Polls are not particularly popular on FBBO.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Polls are not particularly popular on FBBO.

Oh, I see.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Well we likely crossed paths somewhere along the way. Worked QA/QC and NDE management on the construction of Byron station, Midland and Nine Mile Point stations in the mid to late 70s and early 80s. Worked for SGT Steam Generator and Reactor vessel head replacements at Point Beach (83 & 96), DC Cook, St Lucie, Calvert Cliffs (U-1 & U-2), Oconee, ANO 1 and Prairie Island. Worked 5 years at the Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls which included some work at the Naval Reactor training facility. Retired now but had a hell of an interesting run working both Nuclear power generation and government related nuclear work.

I was at Calvert Cliffs for both Steam Generator replacements. There is definitely a good chance we met. I was Radwaste/MatPro.

 

[themechanic]

I served in the Army. But I bet you guys didn't know the UK rents their nukes from Uncle Sam.

 

[Budnicks]

Nope not me, my youngest brother did, was an electrical engineer &
he was a nuclear physicist on subs
an officer, 2nd (or ?) 3rd in command of his boat, when he left active duty,
USN for 25+ years then another stint the reserves...

(my son James is in the USN, he's knowledgeable in nukes, he's a diver, lifer since 2000)

Bros. Mark, I think it was his grad. photo
Bottom right corner, he was out of San Diego for a short time, training people
& mostly stationed in Panhandle, Pensacola Florida, when not somewhere he couldn't talk about
I'm not sure he wants to be known...

 

[RR Fan Dan]

I served in the Army. But I bet you guys didn't know the UK rents their nukes from Uncle Sam.

I did. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants in the US rent their nuclear fuel from the government too. The government won’t take the spent fuel back, so plants initially stored it in their spent fuel pools, when those filled up, they built concrete bunkers to store the older fuel. The plants sued the government in the 1990s and won, so now the government pays a lot of your tax dollars to commercial power every year to store the fuel they won’t take back. Yucca mountain was the solution and was very very close to opening but that didn’t happen. When a nuclear power plant is decommissioned, everything thing is removed, except the most lethal fuel, and it is lethal. The fuel remains on the decommissioned property. There are around 25 or so sites all around the country that have been or are undergoing decommissioning, where the fuel has been left behind.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

he was a nuclear physicist on subs
an officer, 2nd (or ?) 3rd in command of his boat, when he left active duty

That would make him the Engineering Officer. Usually a lieutenant. He would have been in charge of the nuclear engineering spaces. He would have been my boss.

 

[gtx6970]

I just met @SeabeckRedneck on here and learned he is one. By Navy Nuke I mean people who attended Naval Nuclear Power School or worked in the Nuclear Industry.

US Navy 1985-1991
Boot camp and A school at Great Lakes Illinois
I graduated Navy Nuclear Power School Class 8606,Orlando FL.
Went to Prototype at S5G Idaho Falls and then ELT School
Served on SSBN641 Simon Bolivar in Charleston SC and SSN609 Sam Houston in Hawaii.

Nuclear Industry 1991-2025

1991-2003
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Lusby Md- Radiation Safety Technician/Foreman-Radwaste Group.

2003-2005
Envirocare of Utah/Energy Solutions- RSO and Transportation Manager at the Clive Site

2005-2025
Various decommissioning and clean up projects worked for 5 different companies as Project Managers

Enercon
Newex
Penhall
NorthStar
Chase Environmental

It’s a very small Industry, if you are or were in it, chances are we probably might know each other.

Wy wife works for Raytheon Missile Systems

 

[copper67sat]

Nuke engineering was on my short list of degree options, but not top 3. I chose Aerospace engrg after a semester of Electrical engrg that I hated. 37 yrs in propulsion development. We do some nuclear thermal stuff, but I've never worked those programs.

 

[zyzzyx]

G.E. Chicago Power Generation. Worked at most of the BWR's in the Midwest, Bruce Nuclear Generating station in Sarnia Ca. for two years,
Dresden N.P.S. in Morris Il., LaSalle N.P.S., Il., Davis Besse, Ohio, Big Rock in Charlevoix Mi., D.C. Cook, Bridgeman Mi., Quad Cities N.P.S.,
Cordova, Il., San Onofre N.P.S., Cali., Fort Calhoun, Omaha Ne., Too many dirt-burners to list! I was rated as a "Machinist" and when I wasn't
on the road I was the Machine shop workleader in the shop on the outskirts of Chicago, Il.

 

[bandit67]

Did 35 years with Southern Nuclear and retired. Did construction, Hot Functional testing, startup and maintenance at Vogtle 1&2, south of Augusta Ga. Set up new crew of electricians for Vogtle 3 & 4 units before I left. Did many refueling outages at Hatch 1 & 2 as well as Farley 1 & 2 in south Alabama. Always enjoyed what I did, never hated going to work.

 

[Michael Kocan]

Well hey, I have worked at many commercial power plants and am still an RP technician at at Susquehanna Steam Electric and am soon to retire. Calvert Cliffs, I was there a few times including the drain down from HELL! Happend on night shift in the early 1990's around 0300 when operations drained the cavity to the 17' level exposing a highly radioactive component. We were set up for the normal HRA at the cavity and ended up with uncontrolled LHRA on the main access floor. Dose rates 12-18 R/hr surrounding the cavity, 1200 mr/hr on the polar crane. Myself, Tom Duda and John Oreo were scrambling amidst all the ARM's alarming. Craziest experience of my career. The better part of the outage was a purchase from a house RP lead Bob Marshall a 1972 Plymouth 400-4 speed Road Runner for $400.00. Rust free lime green with the roof strobe stripes. Got it running after I brought it back to PA. I also liked the old junk yard that was across and further up the road from the plant.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Well hey, I have worked at many commercial power plants and am still an RP technician at at Susquehanna Steam Electric and am soon to retire. Calvert Cliffs, I was there a few times including the drain down from HELL! Happend on night shift in the early 1990's around 0300 when operations drained the cavity to the 17' level exposing a highly radioactive component. We were set up for the normal HRA at the cavity and ended up with uncontrolled LHRA on the main access floor. Dose rates 12-18 R/hr surrounding the cavity, 1200 mr/hr on the polar crane. Myself, Tom Duda and John Oreo were scrambling amidst all the ARM's alarming. Craziest experience of my career. The better part of the outage was a purchase from a house RP lead Bob Marshall a 1972 Plymouth 400-4 speed Road Runner for $400.00. Rust free lime green with the roof strobe stripes. Got it running after I brought it back to PA. I also liked the old junk yard that was across and further up the road from the plant.

I remember that incident. Bob Marshall was a work colleague of mine. I remember going to his house and he showed me 2 roadrunners, they were both in really nice shape, so it must not be the one you bought for $400. If it was one of the 2 I saw you stole it.

 

[Ray70Chrg]

Hey Fan Dan, I was a sonar tech on Uss John Marshall SSBN 611. I believe "@ JMmac72chrgr" was nuke trained on several boats. You can contact him via Private Conversation, the mail icon up above.
Ray

 

[beanhead]

I've never been a direct employee but have done contract work at the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre facilities on the west coast several times.