About the secret DUIs, there was national implications. How maybe other employees in the industry had hidden DUIs? That is the problem with voluntary submissions and rules. With the outcome of this, the nationwide fix is all licensed employees go through the FBIs data based looking for any illegalities.
***Hmm, When the worst accident in VY's history occurred, I was up in training and being tested on the simulator. They were in the process of yanking my license. It was nothing unexspected.
Life isn't fair, but it is...oh, so perfect.
The Saga Of Michael Buhrman And Land Brittain (Dresden Nuclear Plant)
We were wizards at the technology, but the big money and difficult jobs isolated us from society. The controversy with nuclear power out in our society. We were very narrowly developed human beings, totally missing the liberal arts, feelings the struggles of our society on the outside. That is when extremist Republicanism views takes hold of your brain...
Van was totally color blind. They did backflips to get him in management. When he was just a regular employee he did all the pressure testing of primary piping system and did the valves leak testing. I think that's where management began to favor him. So he got SRO license and quickly put in the control room. He was the youngest SRO candidate ever. He quickly had problems up there with the people he owned. So they had to yank him out of there because of his maturity. They stuck him in a high level maintenance position to oversee all maintenance.
Our safety batteries in the switchyard had issues with the NRC. Diodes were later found degraded in the chargers also. It is basically control power for all the big breaker in the switchyard. Two independent DC safety circuits with chargers and batteries. The NRC ordered us to replace the batteries. The plant should have been shutdown for this. They were cross connecting the safety circuits, yanked out one battery (bank), where one charger and one battery was supplying both circuits. A low level ops person entered the switchyard building and yelled boo. The chargers were basically regulating the voltages with the two systems normally. The chargers were never designed for this job. So one charger supplied one battery and both systems. The remaining components went haywire tripping all the big breaker out in switchyard. We had a plant trip, a loss of all off site power, and all sorts of other equipment problems. It was the worst accident in the plants history.
The outcome was, the switchyard was already a dinosaur. And everyone including the grid authorities wasn't doing the proper maintenance in the switchyard breakers and other components, including all the big breakers offsite. They just wasn't enough time in our short outages to do the proper testing, updating and maintenance in our switchyard and their surrounding outside breakers.
I already had my letter on the Vermont's governor desk saying we are not getting enough resources at the plant and was heading for a terrible accident. This was the guy I predicted.
We finally got brand new sparkling switchyard two years before the permanent shutdown...
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