Oh I think I know a thing or two. I retired from the nuclear plant . I was in on the licensing, design, construction and operation. Went through many refueling outages.
Really? If you were in on any type of design process, you are very old, perhaps you can explain the fundamental difference between Russia's design and ours.. What caused their explosion and how that would not happen here?
Licensing? Operator Licensing? Where you licensed anywhere? Or do you mean facility licensing?
Operation? Operation of what?
I don't think most people understand the amount of safety systems built into these plants. Other than some type of cataclysmic event, the odds of something causing a significant event , fuel failure, are very small. Even way more so now after Fukushima. That event changed the entire industry. Plants, even with their age, are more safe now than when first built.
I know how much I get paid and it would be close to the rest that do my job. I don't buy the "plant employees moral at an all time low" bit.. Of course not everyone can be happy all the time.. But even if it where true, no one person or few persons could cause what happened at Chernobyl.
So, until you can qualify "I was in on the licensing, design, construction and operation", which in itself is pretty odd that one person would be involved with all that (its typically hard for an engineer to be on the operations side of the house), I still think you need better education on nuclear generation..
