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« on: October 10, 2013, 06:23:27 AM »
Does it take 36k employees at nrc to regulate 100 reactors?

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Re: Why
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2013, 07:18:54 AM »
failsafe or cluster$#@% ?
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Re: Why
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2013, 11:19:17 AM »
Quote from: geronimotwo on October 10, 2013, 07:18:54 AM
failsafe or cluster$#@% ?

Delete the "or" and you pretty well have it.

36,000 "brains" regulating 100 reactors is pretty well guaranteed to generate a screw-up or three somewhere along the line.
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Re: Why
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2013, 11:19:33 AM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on October 10, 2013, 06:23:27 AM
Does it take 36k employees at nrc to regulate 100 reactors?



That's 360 people per reactor.  How many people work at a nuke plant, typically?  Wouldn't that be the entire staff of all nuke plants?  Are nuke plant employees hired by private companies or by NRC?
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2013, 11:22:17 AM »
thats the nrc staff   thats not the utility company staff
there was a whining article today about laying off 3600 nrc employees  10% of total staff making us unsafe
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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2013, 11:37:21 AM »
Apparently you guys no nothing about the government. It's not 36,000 workers. It's 12,000 workers, each of whom has a superintendent and a deputy superintendent. Sheesh.
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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2013, 11:40:21 AM »
What about the assistant deputy superintendent  ???
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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2013, 11:42:37 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on October 10, 2013, 11:40:21 AM
What about the assistant deputy superintendent  ???
And what about his assistant?

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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2013, 11:48:18 AM »
We are talking fedgov, yes?

So, no mention of the Unit Diversity Coordinator or the Interagency Coordination Compliance Specialist for each workgroup?
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2013, 11:48:30 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on October 10, 2013, 11:40:21 AM
What about the assistant deputy superintendent  ???

You mean assistant to the deputy superintendent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQG15iM1UI
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« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2013, 12:16:16 PM »
Where did you get the 36,000 number?  I just did a quick search and found this:

http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/reports/fsp2009/nrc.cfm

Permanent Workforce: 3,916 Temporary Workforce: 235 Total Workforce: 4,151

They have it broken down by occupation at the link.  Granted, that's still 40 people per active reactor.  104 active reactors in the US / 4151 = 39.9.  I'll grant the #'s are a few years out of date, but somehow I don't think they hired 10x the employees between 2009 and 2013.
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« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2013, 01:10:48 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on October 10, 2013, 11:19:17 AM
Delete the "or" and you pretty well have it.

36,000 "brains" regulating 100 reactors is pretty well guaranteed to generate a screw-up or three somewhere along the line.
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Re: Why
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2013, 04:02:45 PM »
ok  my face book ranter got it wrong  they have 3900 employees ans are only keeping 10% on duty laying off 3600
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/politics/shutdown-nuclear-plants/index.html
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Re: Why
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2013, 04:04:45 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on October 10, 2013, 04:02:45 PM
ok  my face book ranter got it wrong  they have 3900 employees ans are only keeping 10% on duty laying off 3600
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/politics/shutdown-nuclear-plants/index.html

SO, to rephrase the original question:

If they can work with only 10% of their employees, what is the purpose of those other 90%!?
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« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2013, 04:05:10 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on October 10, 2013, 04:02:45 PM
ok  my face book ranter got it wrong  they have 3900 employees ans are only keeping 10% on duty laying off 3600
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/politics/shutdown-nuclear-plants/index.html

ironic  ;)   :P
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Re: Why
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2013, 06:52:06 PM »
Yeah, now that the watchdogs are off the job, the employees in the plants are running around pulling plugs, putting toothpicks in red buttons, drinking, smoking weed and all sorts of juvenile pranks that the .fedgov critters have to constantly oversee so that they don't happen.
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« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2013, 07:04:26 PM »
Quote from: grampster on October 10, 2013, 06:52:06 PM
Yeah, now that the watchdogs are off the job, the employees in the plants are running around pulling plugs, putting toothpicks in red buttons, drinking, smoking weed and all sorts of juvenile pranks that the .fedgov critters have to constantly oversee so that they don't happen.

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decade or 2 ago the nrc showed up at lake anna and some numbnuts had wired a series of breakers together so he could throw them all at once during drills.
problem? the breakers were to pumps that were used to scram the reactor. and they are big pumps. they need to be thrown one at a time with a pause in between or they burn up the wiring feeding them . and if you need to scram you don't want that. when i read the report i thought it was a joke
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