[Red] Where the hell is Red?

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Submitted by Red on April 21, 2009 - 10:45am

Some of you (hopefully) noticed that I've been silent for the last while. While I would like to regale you with some heroic tale of being taken hostage my Somalian pirates, the truth is much lamer.

Most of my articles were written on the bus or at school. Whenever some paper had me as a captive audience, I wrote. Some were good, a lot sucked, and some of both made it to a campus newspaper.

Now that I have a real job, and a commute that requires some form of thought, I haven't been slave to a blank screen. Combine that with a rather uneventful job (see paragraph one) and you get silence.

I'm on a 6 month secondment at a power station where there is surprisingly little to do at the moment, and no time sheets to fill in, so there might be an article or two in the future. I can't promise anything, but hopefully this will get me back into the groove.

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Jam

Submitted by Jam on April 21, 2009 - 2:06pm.

You're ALIVES! :D :D :D

High five for six month secondments at power stations!

elgefe

Submitted by elgefe on April 21, 2009 - 9:20pm.

So what are you supposed to do at said power station? What is your supposed job description?

Red

Submitted by Red on April 22, 2009 - 11:09am.

The power station I'm working at for the next few months is undergoing a rather large refurbishment. Somewhere in the ballpark of 100,000,000 lbs worth of refurbishment over the next 6 months.

I work in the boiler department, which means I'm helping some experienced station guys with the replacement of all the 6 5/8" pipework at the top dead space, as well as the non destructive testing of the 6 5/8" pipework in the bottom dead space.

I also have a couple projects of my own - well, sorta.

Some new drains are being installed on the Y1/Y2 headers (the 2nd to last set of headers before steam hits the turbine). Apparently my fingerprints are on this project, but all the hard work was done months ago. Now I just get to provide drawings, know more or less where the components are and bask in the glory of having completed a project.

I also will be dealing with some pipe penetration seals on the roof, but that's not kicking off for a while yet.

Should be interesting.

Jam

Submitted by Jam on April 30, 2009 - 12:04pm.

So is this a gas-fired steam generator then? Or Nuclear? They don't have any Hydro dams in Nottingham, do they?

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