r/NuclearPower

Any opinions on the Dominion and NextEra merger? I currently work for DE and the overwhelming feeling is everyone is concerned about how lean NextEra nuclear appears to be. Anyone who worked at a site when NextEra purchased them? How did that integration go?

So I recently had a interview for nlo about 2 weeks ago I come from a fossil fuel generation operations background and have a degree in power plant technology and am trying to transition to nuclear operations. I passed my POSS test and I feel like the interview went really well answered my behavioral questions really well and when he “asked how does a nuclear pwr plant make power ” I broke down the primary side and secondary side flow path of both sides and major equipment and what they are doing and got very good reactions from the panel and I felt like it was a overall good interview I asked questions about how do they start up with no aux steam cause they are a single unit plant and then went into how our aux boilers are crap (my plant had a aux boiler too) Wanted to ask more questions but didn’t want to seem like I was trying to show off knowledge. I’m at the waiting stage now and it’s killing me to know if I got it but still too soon to know I sent a email to the recruiter just to keep my name fresh and haven’t gotten a update yet which i expected but I don’t know if I’m working my self up for nothing and worried about internal hires the class is a medium sized nlo class

Gas and coal cannot compete with free.

Hey folks - I spent some time in my young adulthood working in IT at Prairie Island. It was a very positive, fascinating and formative experience. A very good episode of the podcast “Search Engine” about nuclear energy inspired me to post this! People who have never worked at a plant have no idea what it’s like.

Can you tell me what it was like?

Just recently got my MEng in mechanical engineering , my masters thesis was in the cooling of a micro reactor and got a job offer as an energy engineer but my dream has always been to work at a nuclear power plant , how can I use this job as a stepping stone to maybe get a gig at a power plant , also got an offer a few months ago to work as a labourer at pSeg but didn’t pass the background check due to me not having a driver’s license. Just a thinking and don’t want to lose my technical skills and be doing energy auditing task and data analysis etc. just want some advice and ideas.
Thanks

I was reading about the concept of "resonance escape probability" and a question came to mind. What I was reading said, in effect, "if an incident neutron is close to a resonance energy, it's more likely to be captured". Does the neutron energy have to be below the energy level for capture, or just close to it?

These are garbage numbers, but as an example, if the resonance energy was 200keV, could a 204keV neutron be captured, or is it more of a "close to resonance without going over" scenario? If it could be captured would the extra energy just be dealt with as a slightly excited nucleus or would it try to dump it as a gamma ray?

I aspire to one day be a reactor operator. If I can, maybe even a senior reactor operator.

Unfortunately, as a teen and young adult, I had a laundry list of mental health issues that are listed as disqualifying under 10 CFR 55 and in ANSI/ANS 3.4. I would like to avoid listing them here to avoid doxing myself. Some of them are pretty bad and I feel like the words "immediately disqualifying," "history of," and "ever" come up pretty quick.

I've seen mention of conditional licensing such as "no solo" qualifications, increased frequency of medical examinations, and compliance with prescribed medications. I don't know how common these accomodations are from the regulator or how likely a site is to recommend them, especially for someone attempting to enter operations as opposed to an existing licensee.

Does anyone here have any sober advice as to what I can expect if I attempt to tread this path? Are there any disqualifying conditions in an applicant's mental health history that cannot be mitigated regardless of how much time has passed? How does a current psych eval weigh against history so old that records no longer exist?

P.S. I'm well now, and I've been well for a long time. I was a dumb kid and I've grown up a lot since then. For a frame of reference, all of this stuff went down decades ago.

I’ve been offered a job as a laborer at a local plant and the benefits and pay is alot better than my current job. I know outages are not permanent but are there any full time opportunities to come with working every couple months during plant outages?

Recently interviewed (about 3 weeks ago) with a large utility company in my area for a control room operator position. (Central virginia).

The interviewer said the foundations class would start early July. Just curious if timelines are really elongated due to the mass hiring they are trying to do.

I passed my poss test and have pretty high aptitude. Interview week ok. Could of been better but with a potential class of 24 people I just need to do good enough.

Not sure if I should reach back out to the re recruiter or not.

Any and all advice would help

Let's face it, only two countries are building nuclear now: China and Russia. China is all in on renewables so I can see them dropping nuclear completely in the future. That leaves Russia and they don't seem to care about renewables that much, so they might be the only country left building nuclear. Their exports will collapse though as it won't make sense for any developing countries to build nuclear over solar.

New story on the Palisades restart effort

Let's face it, only two countries are building nuclear now: China and Russia. China is all in on renewables so I can see them dropping nuclear completely in the future. That leaves Russia and they don't seem to care about renewables that much, so they might be the only country left building nuclear. Their exports will collapse though as it won't make sense for any developing countries to build nuclear over solar.