Tuesday, May 3rd Update
This site has remained dormant for the last three months while I was working in Wisconsin at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant. When the catastrophic earthquake and the following tsunami did all the damage in Japan, it devastated the nuclear industry in Japan but the ripples will be felt throughout the nuclear industry world wide. I am one of those people who believes the nuclear industry as we know it today will change for the better because of lessons learned in the disaster that happened in Japan. The plant that is experiencing all the problems is forty years old and has operated without major problems for all that time. A major earthquake caused that all to change in an instant. We in the U.S. will benefit from lessons learned during the disaster in Japan and I believe we will experience a huge increase in the work that is done in our own plants as they are shut down for refueling. Since the disaster is still underway and Japan is doing what they can to regain control of the most damaged reactors in that plant, it will take a while for new procedures to be written changing the way we operate here in the U.S. and take actions that will prevent the same thing that happened in Japan from happening here. Japan can not replace their nuclear energy with fossil fuel because they have no natural resources such as oil or coal to produce that energy. They would have to import all that oil and coal and that would put an enormous strain on the worlds energy sources and drive up energy prices world wide. There are people who would like to use this disaster as an excuse to shut down nuclear power use in this country and the rest of the world. All we would accomplish by doing that is putting ourselves back in the dark ages and put such a demand on fossil fuel that we could not afford it. The key to keeping safe nuclear energy is to insure a secure shutdown process which is possible and is the norm in the nuclear industry here in the U.S. All we have to do is assure we have a redundant system that continues running cooling water through the reactor in the event two safety systems fail as they did in Japan. We may even see some changes in design as the result of the catastrophe that happened in Japan but we can all rest assured that nuclear energy is both clean and safe in this country and our N.R.C. will do what it takes to keep our nuclear industry safe in this country by learning from the disaster in Japan.
As for other work in our industry, Canada is making a list of people who are interested in working up there in the near future.
Local 1 has work on a refinery as well as a new fossil fuel power plant in Southern Illinois.
Now for the best news of the year or even the last decade, Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a mansion in Pakistan and it was done by our very own Navy Seals. This is special for me because I watched the World Trade Center fall in person while I was working on a cogeneration plant in Linden, New Jersey right across the harbor. It took almost ten years to get Bin Laden but he is finally dead. He lived by the gun and he died by the gun.
As for other work in our industry, Canada is making a list of people who are interested in working up there in the near future.
Local 1 has work on a refinery as well as a new fossil fuel power plant in Southern Illinois.
Now for the best news of the year or even the last decade, Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a mansion in Pakistan and it was done by our very own Navy Seals. This is special for me because I watched the World Trade Center fall in person while I was working on a cogeneration plant in Linden, New Jersey right across the harbor. It took almost ten years to get Bin Laden but he is finally dead. He lived by the gun and he died by the gun.
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