{"id":196434,"date":"2008-04-27T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/27\/no-i-havent-worked-there\/"},"modified":"2008-04-27T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T04:19:00","slug":"no-i-havent-worked-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/27\/no-i-havent-worked-there\/","title":{"rendered":"No, I Haven&#8217;t Worked There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I am currently working on similar projects, basically end of life stuff in the nuclear fuel process.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m glad not to be working on <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/04\/25\/europe\/EU-GEN-Ukraine-Chernobyl-New-Shelter.php\">a new shelter for the Chernobyl reactor<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a no win situation.  Even if you get it right, no one will know for years and years while the costs continue to mount.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, &#8220;Even if you get it right, no one will know for years and years while the costs continue to mount,&#8221; is a good metaphor for civilian nuclear power in general.<\/p>\n<p>Price tag $1.4 billion and climbing.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">No specifics.  My client company&#8217;s business (I&#8217;m a contractor) is their business, and it is unethical, as well as unwise, to discuss this in detail.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I feel no similar compunction about commenting about <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/random-thoughts-on-working-experience.html\">how a co-worker resembles Captain Jean Luc Picard<\/a>.   Since this does not, nor could it be construed as sensitive or compromising information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I am currently working on similar projects, basically end of life stuff in the nuclear fuel process.* In any case, I&#8217;m glad not to be working on a new shelter for the Chernobyl reactor. It&#8217;s a no win situation. Even if you get it right, no one will know for years and years while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,1163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}