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

Where you or are you in the nuclear industry?

  • Yes I was a Navy Nuke

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • Yes I was a Navy Nuke AND I Work or Worked in the Industry

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • No I Was Not a Navy Nuke, BUT I Work or Worked in the Industry

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • No I Was Not a Navy Nuke and I Never Worked in the Industry

    Votes: 8 42.1%
  • Total voters
    19
beanhead said:
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.
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That counts. Most outages are staffed by contractors. Contractors make up a good percentage of the routine workers. A lot of people make their living as a road worker, going from plant to plant as a contractor. That’s how I met my wife, she was a contractor. San Onofre, I spent a couple of months there as a contractor as well. The twin sisters.

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DeltaV said:
Polls are not particularly popular on FBBO.
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neither are the Russians.

I worked with a guy in the UK who had spent 25 years of his life on British Nuclear powered submarines. He definitely lacked certain social skills when around us normal above-ground folks...... that's being polite. .... wildly eccentric might be another descriptive term. It was easy to convince him to dress up for the Christmas lunch as Captain Birdseye - complete with his Navy duffle coat, his cap and a box of fish fingers in his pocket. He even did the old pirate greetings....lol

Phil eventually had children, and both of them turned out to be 'retarded' - definitely had mental deficiencies. There has to be something in that relationship between the nuclear power and human reproduction. :poke:

This pic of Captain Birdseye is a pretty good likeness of Phil - beard and all....

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I did laborer work at the then under construction Palo Verde nuclear plant when I first moved to Az. Paid good. They didn’t let me near the tech stuff though.
I have a cousin who did his navy career in a nuke sub. He got injured in the sub and they broke through Antarctic ice to get him helicoptered off. Forget the exact details but yes they really did that.
 
JackR said:
the sub and they broke through Antarctic ice to get him helicoptered off. Forget the exact details but yes they really did that.
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That’s common practice and a milestone event during a cruise on a fast attack sub., and it’s a badge of honor amongst us bubbleheads. I never got to do it, my first sub was a boomer, and carried nukes, so breaking through ice would have given away its position which is a no no. The second sub was a special operations boat, that carried a miniature submersible housed in a garage attached to the outside of the sub for Navy Seals to use to do their Navy Seal stuff. We couldn’t punch through ice with that thing on back.

Here is an article about it I found.

www.popularmechanics.com

How the Navy Punches a Nuclear Sub Through Arctic Ice

It may look easy, but surfacing a nuclear submarine in the Arctic requires careful preparation.
www.popularmechanics.com www.popularmechanics.com
 
Who here attended the Nuclear Power School at Mare Island?
 
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