[buckalfa]

“Nuclear power is perfectly safe, except for the idiots who work in the industry”. A quote from my late father who worked at K-25 and Y-12 for 42 years.

[Zathras]

Your dad worked in K25 and Y12 for 42 years?
Wow!

[HangThemHigh]

42 years? I thought I was doing well to make it 10 years (under contract at DOE), now retired.

[Pontiac]

K-25 and Y-12 are a far cry from civilian nuclear power. In my 33 years of experience, there is not much cross pollination between civilian power and weapons production ends of nuclear.

The only people I have ever met that had worked in both were contractor radiation protection technicians.

[shanover]

“Nuclear power is perfectly safe, except for the idiots who work in the industry”.

Nuclear power should have been the dawn of the modern era. I agree,like most good things in life,idiots ruin it for everybody.The industry is incompetently run,over regulated and held hostage by enviro-nazis and the scare-them-all media

I believe the military has mastered it with very minimal setback.

Energy sustainability and independence would not solve all problems but would solve most of Americas.

[cymbeline]

“A quote from my late father who worked at K-25 and Y-12 for 42 years.”

Wow! I worked in both of those places once upon a time.

Someone else pointed out indirectly that it’s not good for nuclear plants to be cycled on and off frequently. Thermal stress on the large metal parts is the reason. Also, it takes a long time to start up a nuclear plant.

It’s peculiar that the oxidation of the fuel rods is unexpected. Fuel rods are regularly replaced. Did they leave fuel roes in the reactor beyond their operational lifetime in order to save money?