Nuclear power station graphite core inspectors: PPE

If you’re going international make sure you’re speaking about the same process. You don’t want to be talking about camel toes while they’re talking about elephant’s feet.

True Story.
I was involved in a decommissioning project on a Magnox reactor at Sellafield.

To prevent radioactive genitals you tucked your trousers into your socks to stop radioactive dust whafting up there when walking about.
So that’s all you need – tuck your keks in.

Calder Hall? Those stations were howling, AGR’s are much cleaner. C3 gear hasn’t changed though, 2 pairs of marigolds and coveralls with the inner set secured with health physics tape.

last time I looked in the garage there was a couple of tin framed bikes – my commuter has a carbon fork with a bonded tin stem tube and the cheap tin wheels have tin nipples on the tin spokes – lots of airliners are made of tin but composite is taking over…I believe the much loved Land Rover Defender had flat tin panels…bored? its around 110years since tin foil started to well and truly disappear…mrs antigee calls it silver foil FFS

Ooh God yeah, Calder Hall and Chapelcross were howling just under the top ducts on pilecap. @squirrelking, dont forget the pink pants and vest!

Dunno about those, just going with what I’ve been told by those that worked next door. Amazing to think their charge machine trundled between the reactors and its own maintenance building and seagulls used to land in the open air fuel ponds. Different times… 😬

Opening this thread was weird as I was actually going to do nuclear power instead of diving, but then realised I knew so little about nuclear physics that I couldn’t. Scary, given that I have a degree in physics. 🙁

But then I didn’t realise the original climbing one was about sailing until people started posting pictures of actual masts in actual boats. I was assuming he was talking about radio, phone or electric masts

Week four and counting without doing any mountain biking…
Put on 2kg, still dog tired and heartily pissed off.

As you were …

Maybe you can pick up some tips from this video?

I was going to link to the same video series. Some of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen. On one hand funny, on the other very very scary

You shouldnt watch them, and your brain says you shouldnt watch them, but you just cant help yourself !

Calder and Chapelcross Charge and Discharge M/Cs were tiny little things. I accidently shutdown R2 at Calder by ‘nudging’ the Control Rod mechanism with a trolley while going across Pile Cap, such fun. Hunterston As Fuelling M/C had its own building (CMMB), fuelled the reactors from underneath, very odd arrangement…AGRs are much more sensible, built the right way up for a start!