looking for a job at the Nuclear power plant in Shippingport PA.

[USMCPMEL]

Hello, Does anyone on this forum happen to work at that plant? I am trying to find out where I would have to apply to get a job there. Maybe some insight into what the pay might be (and what the beneifts are down there )  or what working conditions would be like?

[mdbuike]

You is one funny guy...

  http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/doe_shippingport_01.htm   

The first large-scale nuclear powerplant in the world began operating in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1957--exactly 15 years after Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first sustained nuclear reaction. The Duquesne Light Company of Pittsburgh built and operated the Shippingport plant on a site it owned on the Ohio River. The company also contributed to the cost of developing the government-owned reactor. Three years later, the Shippingport plant began supplying electricity to the Pittsburgh area. The Shippingport nuclear powerplant was retired in 1982. Congress assigned the decontamination and decommissioning of this commercial reactor to DOE. This was the first complete decontamination and decommissioning of a reactor in the United States. The reactor vessel was shipped to a low-level waste disposal facility at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington. The reactor site was cleaned and released for unrestricted use in November 1987. Government officials proclaimed the seven-acre site is suitable for picnicking or for a children's playground.


Mike

[OlDave]

the seven-acre site is suitable for picnicking or for a children's playground

Sounds like easy work if you can get it.

[USMCPMEL]

Hey that is a great article you posted however..............2 things that do not make sense here. 1 my wife worked there as a temp 3 years ago and it was in operation then. 2 I just got a reply from First Energy which redirected me to a site to apply for employement at that site. I guess they started back up??

[mdbuike]

I don't know...

My wife is from Bradford PA, and I'm from just south of Niagara Falls..

If they need a radiac trained, multitasking guy, let me know...Nebraska is just too cold in the winter

Mike

[MeasureMan]

The plant that you are talking about if Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station.  There are two plants on that site and they are in Shippingport PA.  I work for FirstEnergy at the central laboratory (BETA) in Mayfield Village Ohio.  We have a Metrology lab at that location and the Beaver plant has a small on-site lab.  All that work use to be done in the main lab except the company had a union issue and the work went back to the plant.  Our BETA Lab supports the whole corporation including our three nuclear power plants, Beaver Valley, Perry, and Davis Besse.