Vaughn Simon wrote:

I am an ex-Navy nuclear power plant operator, so I have also slept a night
or two on a Navy nuke ship (submarine actually).

I am not nearly as down on the civilian plants as you are. In ways, their
operations are safer (or at least easier) than those the of the Navy because
they tend to operate at a constant power for months at a time.

It also seems that a lot of the executives and the operating personnel
at US nuclear facilities are ex Navy bubbleheads as well. I believe
the first Nuclear plant on the grid was a Navy sub that was connected to
the Philadelphia grid and run for some time, but I can't find a
reference for that now. Another factoid, the US Navy is the fifteenth
largest utility in the US, although they buy most of their power rather
than generate it themselves.

Charles