Got to Love Truther John's Fear Mongering Ways

I am telling you, that Truther John is a pisser! He's had to send his White Nuclear Snowflake under cover, but it is still there, and still pumping out first class Entergy Fearmongering! Check out his latest cartoon! You have to click the blank picture to see it.

Last Week A Four Case Nightmare

JESUS H CHRIST! Friday should have been a day of celebration at the plant as the management put the final touches on our license renewal application last Thursday night, and it should be sitting in Rockville now. Instead, another glitch with the sirens but a damper on our keg party. We really need to catch a break.

The Assessment Meeting went poorly as well, and those A-Holes from Green Nuclear Butterfly managed to steal the show! They even had our guys from the Carpenters Union clammering around their booth begging for cans of Radioactive Energy. It got so bad that one of the suits had to go over and remind them that Green Nuclear Butterfly is enemy number one inside the plant. The NRC gave them the best space in the building, and they used it to clean our clocks. Several of us went out afterwards and got ripping drunk. Having to be back at work red eyed four hours after getting home was not pretty.

Folks at Entergy corporate are planning a full court PR Campaign in our area, including bringing in our heavy hitters from CASEnergy, Patrick Moore and Christine Todd Whitman. We are also expecting some positive coverage in the NEI blog, which is regularly read inside the NRC. With all the money Entergy has funneled to George Bush and the Republicans, we are even hopeful of a Presidential visit here at the plant. Maybe we can get George to dance around the reactor dome with us. That would really lift spirits around here.

Holly CHIT! Things Here At Indian Point Getting Very Ugly

Management is first of all livid with the NRC, which in turn makes the lives of us average Joe's a major pain in the arse. We all thought the NRC would give us a slap on the wrist for appearance sake when the sirens failed to come in on time. Instead, they walloped Entergy with a $130,000 fine, double what it would normally be! Those freaking butt turds don't even realize they are giving those who want the plant closed far to much ammunition. Something like this could be just enough leverage for the general public to get their ISA, and that is one can of worms we do not want opened. Sure, for a plant almost 40 years old, we are relatively safe, but trust me, we have some issues that cannot see the light of day until after we have gone through re licensing.

What with the explosion and all, the inspectors are having more time to snoop around, so we had no choice but to make another tritium leak public this week. The wolves on the IPSEC list are already howling, demanding to know why it took two weeks to inform the public. Duh, maybe because we did not want you to know about it, were hoping to sneak that one by for awhile, which we would have if not for the explosion shutting us down. This sucks big time, as we are going to be operating under a white code now for quite some time.

The icing on the cake though is that damned Green Nuclear Butterfly! The news just came down that the NRC has agreed to let him have a table at this weeks Annual Assessment Meeting, and NRC Open House. Fork! He's like some deranged Energizer Bunny who just keeps coming at us nonstop. Even worse, rumor on his blog, is that they now have a corporate sponsor.

Some Grumbling Going On

Don't get me wrong, after 9/11 we need tight security where nuclear reactors and weapons facilities are concerned, but the new Fitness For Duty standards where members of our security team are concerned are just not fair to many long term employees at the plant. Hell, I could not run 40 yards for a Bar BQ rib sandwich, let alone do it in 8 seconds flat...I'd trip over my beer belly long before I reached the finish line. I'm bringing this up, because 500 security staff walked off their jobs over this very issue at a military weapons sight last night...FAT PEOPLE ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN THE WORK PLACE.

These new fitness for duty rules are bullsh*t plain and simple, especially where nuclear reactors are concerned. Don't let on that I told you this, but our Indian Point security strategy is simple...we sit in defensive positions behind bullet resistant (almost but not quite as good as bullet proof) glass shields, and wait for the terrorist to come to us...we could get hurt running around outside, especially if we got attacked after dark. Any fat schmuck can handle security of this nature, and how fit do you need to be to have some one sign in...those clipboards are not that heavy.

You ask me, this is just another tool that management wants to use in their attempts to break unions, lower wages and decrease staffing at reactor sites. As it is, the public would be shocked if they knew the skeletal staff we use to run not one but two reactors here at Indian Point. Get rid of management and security staff, and you have barely 1000 employees to maintain two reactors. Sounds like a lot, until you figure thats 500 employees per reactor, with 4 different shift cycles we have to cover. In the cases of a serious incident, we would be severely short handed real fast.

If truth be told, think Entergy would get rid of half of us yesterday if they were not afraid of us going public about the goings on inside the plant. Get me a few good beers, and I could tell you some stories that would make your hair stand on end. What we know keeps us safe, keeps us employed. That is the real secret behind the slogan, "Vital, safe and secure."

Reactor Side Keg Party

Explosions, problems with our water intake system, and the NRC breathing down our neck about the sirens not being ready on time has all of us in pretty low spirits this weekend, so a few of us boys decided it was time for a party. Nothing warms the heart more than a Keg party beside the blue light of the reactor's core.

Couple of big old kegs of Pabst Blue Ribbon, some music to dance by, and with all of us in our yellow suits, well it almost brings tears to the eyes. That's what people don't understand about us, we are FAMILY here at Indian Point. Sure, the cancer rates among us can be tough at times, and its hard to ignore some of the birth defects in reactor babies, then of course that dang murder/suicide really knocked us for a loop, but Indian Point is our home.

Sure, the reactors have some serious problems, but so does my pick up truck, but I am not about to have her hauled to the junk yard just because she's burning oil, and second gear is gone. A little bit of TLC, and I might just get 200,000 miles out of the old gal. The leaking fuel pools are a problem, but we check the Folgers coffee cans every day so they don't over flow to badly. The tritium and strontium 90 that is contaminating the Hudson? I am sorry, but that is one of those red herrings you hear about. With all the water moving down the Hudson, anything we dump into the river is diluted! Even Neil Sheehan gave us that one.

While we are being honest, it's true...we cannot stop a terrorist attack if one comes our way, but DAMMIT, such an event is not very likely, and we have 1500 jobs at stake here! All those millions of selfish people complaining about the risks and financial loss if an attack were to occur, and not one thought given to those of us who would be out of a job if Indian Point is not relicensed. Think about it this way...New Orleans dodged a bullet for several decades before Hurricane Katrina hit, and we are only asking you to risk two lousy decades. Why can't the public see that, and take a gamble for us, for our families? Sure, if we are wrong, there could be trillions of dollars in damages, but what if we guessed right, and nothing happens for another 20 years?

If just once some of you folks joined us for skinny dipping in the spent fuel pools, you'd understand us better, maybe even come to like the tingling sensation of irradiated water on your skin. Go for a walk through the facility, stop in the control room to listen to the ever present sounds of whistles and alarms, the gentle buzz constantly in your ears, then walk on up to the reactor Dome, and join us for a beer. We are all family here at Indian Point, and Entergy would welcome all of you with open hearts, and arm in arm we can all march into a wonderful GREEN Nuclear Tomorrow.

Green Rating Gone...NRC Rug Rats Under Feet More

That explosion is going to be a serious pain in our arse here at the Indian Point plant, as it means more NRC staff we have to befriend and pay off. It is official, and all over the news media that we have lost our GREEN RATING, which takes away our Annual On site Deer Hunt...nothing finer than venison merinated in the reactor core before roasting! Word in the break room has it that midnight skinny dipping in the spent fuel pools is out as well.

Best get back to work...we have some valves and gauges not working, and we have to make it look like we are trying to fix them...give us a break already. These reactors are almost 40 years old, and some of the parts we cannot even get any more! A big hit with the hammer sometimes squeezes a bit more life out of the gauges, so maybe I will give that a try right after lunch.