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Originally Posted by RWebb
That would NEVER happen at ORNL. Never, never
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That's funny. When I first started at ORNL I was told that engineers are "second class citizens". I shrugged it off, but it's true. It's an interesting social and professional dynamic.
Our value here is to arrogantly tell the PhD physicists why their crazy idea won't actually work. I stood and listened to one physicist spend 10 minutes describing this thing he wanted to do during an upcoming outage. He had it all figured out. He got done and asked what I thought. I said, "Yeah, technically we can do that. Unfortunately the radiation levels will kill all of the technicians, though.". He hadn't thought about that part...
