Recent Plots
I know that across this month or two I feel like I have bombarded the reader with all sorts of information. I really do hope that some of it was interesting and all of it was informative. That truly was my goal: to inform about some nuclear knowledge and to at times share an interesting opinion. It does actually sadden me a little to end this. I sometimes imagine some person late in the future stumbling upon my blog and finding it to be really interesting. Then hopefully in some way I help that person with this information. I doubt it but maybe. So in that sense it is a little sad to cut this to an end. However, this has been quite a lot of back to back blogging and I am happy to let it go. Maybe sometime from now I'll come back to it, but for now this is it and onwards to what comes after this. After graduation. Just in case you're interested I'll be heading off to medical school. Wish me luck. Okay now getting back into it...
I just wanted to briefly talk about a recent risk involved with working in nuclear power. Today we're talking about terrorism. I want to take a moment to give my support and prayers for those in Brussels and family members that may have been affected by the recent attacks.I truly do hope for a resolution to this unrest. The Brussels attacks claimed at least 30 lives and left many more wounded. There were also somewhere around 200 wounded as well. There were 3 blasts. 2 went off at the airport and 1 at the subway. You may have already known this. But did you know that after these attacks there has been a sizable increase in security at the Doel and Tihange Nuclear Power Plants? Working at a nuclear power plant is very much a dangerous job possibly beside the low risk of radiation and such.It seems that the men behind the bombing also had hopes of crafting a dirty bomb instead. They even went as far as to set up a camera at a researcher's house that worked at a plant. Their probable plan was to cause some type of blackmail situation and force access to the plant or the theft of some material that would aid their development. Luckily, this plan did not come to fruition as the results could have been worse, even though I acknowledge the weight of this tragedy currently. This really is a recent example of the current threats of working with nuclear energy. If after you land your future industry job you guys come back to your house and spot an unknown camera watching you, be wary. These things do very much happen and I hope for all my friends' future prosperity and safety.
I had a lot of fun with classmates and I am grateful to any of my readers.
Thank you all.
-RandomNuclearThoughts
This is a pretty personal question, and you don't have to respond if you'd rather not:
ReplyDeleteAt this moment in time, would you rather be an employee who was sent home and stripped of their accessibility OR one of the critical personnel involved in routine reactor operations?
This is a very interesting topic. You are definitely a higher profile target if you have access to any nuclear facility. The question of would you like to give up your personal privacy for security is a tough question. Me personally: No. I will take steps myself to ensure my security. But other people dont want to worry about stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting post. Nuclear facilities are at risk when it comes to terrorist attacks and I believe that safety measures should be increased and taken seriously. I did not know that some measures could go as far as to placing a security camera in someones home. I enjoyed reading your posts, good luck in medical school!
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