Wednesday, May 28, 2008

My top ten similarities between Naval and Commercial Nuclear Power


10. The RO’s main responsibility is to keep the core covered and cooled.

9. Things are best when Keff =1.0.

8. It sucks to get crapped up (put in radcon jail).

7. On a turbine generator hot bearing, if after unloading there is not immediate improvement, the bearing emits smoke or shows other signs of trouble, break vacuum and stop the shaft.

6. Two thirds of the energy put in the reactor coolant from the core goes “out the door.”

5. Decay heat is 7% of equilibrium power.

4. IX resin smells (like fish)

3. Xenon, Xenon, Xenon

2. Briefs aren’t

1. The difference between an infant and a nuclear operator is that when you give an infant what it wants, it quits crying.

2 comments:

lwoodcrew said...

Monte, you are such a nerd, but I love ya brother.

Anonymous said...

Oh, come now...

Most of what nuke operators do would be described better as "whining."