d crew chiefs that stayed after the navy left.

And we hauled a lot of radioactive "fun boxes" over the years in the
"R-one" position (right behind the cockpit) with no TI limit! The
goods news is my power bills have gone way down over the years. I
don't use the lighting anymore in my shop at night cuz I'm glowin! ;-)

Hope you've enjoyed my fictitious stories.

pac


Ahh, Pac, don't worry about hauling the radioactive loads. The
exposure level on the outside of the package containers are so low
that you could use one for a pillow for life and never have a
significant dose. In fact you could hold it like a baby in your arms
for life and never have any adverse health effects.

Yes, it's measurable, but remember that in radiation you can measure
individual nuclei disintegrating.

They weren't hovering that MD-500 in the cooling tower steam, they
were hovering over the reactor itself. There's a vent and a stack on
the Mark-IV containment vessel that can vent gas from the container to
the atmosphere. They were hovering there. It was awesome to watch.
Those poor *******s had to do an entire shift just hovering there over
that stack. Typical government flying. Make a big statement about
what you are doing to protect the environment by placing two pilots
and two physicists directly over the stack when you know that nothing
is going to come out and if it did, you could detect it instantly a
mile downwind in a diluted form that might be the difference between
life and death to the air crew if the thing really did go ape-**** and
continue to melt down even though it was flooded with water by that
time and the condition was static.

I'll dig out my Three Mile Island photos tonight and post them over on
the Binaries files if I can find the damn things somewhere.

In the olden-days we used film and paper prints. I know that's
probably alien to you young whipper snappers, but when I do find the
photos I have in some obscure album somewhere, I'll have to scan them
to get them on the net. I'll try.

Pac. If you were 16 in 1979 then you were born in 63. I had my first
piece of ass by then buddy.

BWB