We'll walk forever on velvet green.

I first of all want to continue my rant in my "about me" thing.


I have worked in Nuclear and I don't glow at night. Though I have seen the spent fuel rods glowing at the bottom of the spent fuel pool. I have seen the control room and the reactor and, yes, they're amazing.Really, the rumor I'd like to squash is about safety, nuclear power is extremely safe. The yearly dose(how much radiation you get. As enforced by the NRC) rates are comparable to the amount if radiation you get from the sun yearly.

While I worked at STP for two months and made countless entries into the RA(Radiation Area.) I only received .1 mRem. which is .0001 Rem, out of the legal yearly limit of 1.5 rem.
1.5 Rem is also close to the amount of radiation you get from the sun yearly.
It would take over 100 rem for you to even begin show signs of radiation poisoning.
Also, your body(like the Earth.) cleanses it's self of contaminates, so the radiation doesn't build up over time but is flushed out.
the .1 mRem is actually Neutron radiation, which you can only get from being near the reactor while it is in power.
The reactor is HUGE, it's around 12 feet across.
When you walk into the MAB(Main area building.) you loose all sense of direction.

Seven feet of concrete has that effect on you.

It feels like playing a game, like Zelda when you're in a dungeon.
You have no sense of the outside world or how it relates with the room you're in.

All of the buildings smell different.
Nay, all of the rooms smell different.
Every room has a different temperature.
One minute you'll be in a room where it's a muggy 100 degrees and then you're in a room where it's 50 DF with wind speeds of up to 50 MPH.

It's beyond real.
Beyond explaining.
It's a wild, scary, exciting place.
Like walking in one huge machine.
there are pipes everywhere.
Everything looks the same.

There are so many amazing things in it.
The rods glowing at the bottom of the spent fuel pool are the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
It's a faint blue glow, otherworldly.
The pool it's self is amazing, it's 45.6 feet of perfectly clear water.

If only there was a way I could tell everyone about the things I saw there.

The control room looks like the bridge of a star ship.
But brightly lit.
And yellow.
With blue carpet.

For the record, if a plane full of fuel was flown into the containment building,
the plane would loose.
Bad.
Crunched plane.
Sad, crunch~ed plane.

There's an airlock between the MAB and the RCB.(Reactor containment building.)
It has that new car smell.
I was disappointed by the lack of "Smoke Machine"/"Liquid Nitrogen"/"Pressurized Air" fog when I was in the airlock.
They could of thrown that in for the aesthetics of it all.


It was an amazing experience that I was honored to be given.

It's a pity I'll probably never see it again.

On the other hand, I have red hair now!
Wow!

I feel bitchier already.


Any way, I has gots to go.

-Jess