RE: OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB

["Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>]

Alas, the last bastion of civilization (Long Island) is slowly but surely doing away with any and all forms of gainful employment for the atomically inclined. Soon, any dreams I might have had of returning to that sweet hummock in the sea will be dashed on the proverbial rocks. It's not that I couldn't find work inland and commute.......I just wouldn't be able to pay my electric bill. What IS the cost per kilowatt hour out there these days?



Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.



-----Original Message-----

From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@yahoo.com]

Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:42 PM

To: Flanigan, Floyd; Kent, Michael D.; maury;

radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: RE: OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB





Floyd,

I believe that you will find information in the

Radsafe achives, for example

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/9709/msg00429.html

you will find the sad tale of the closure of the High

Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at BNL due to a tritium in

the ground water.  



The problem is they called it a "reactor" instead of a

"neutral particle generator."  A bit wordy, but it is

technically true.



--- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>

wrote:

> It is also amazing that they have an accelerator at

> Brookhaven right down the road in NY and no one

> seems to have directed the "nuclear safety" finger

> that way. I decommissioned Shoreham and the local

> rumor was that there were gentlemen in trench coats

> with crooked noses, wearing fedoras behind the whole

> Shoreham evolution.

> . . .



=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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