The Official Blog of Nuclear Power

Finally, after almost two years of training, I got to stand a watch as reactor operator. That shit was pretty cool, too. Being the person responsible for a multi-megawatt nuclear reactor was awesome.

I got to control the reactor for four hours and do a bunch of confidential stuff associated with it. I wish I could say more because it was exciting but I’m afraid the government would disagree with me. If nothing else it will give me something to talk about at my class reunion in a few years.

I hope the form that you fill out about what you’ve done with the past ten years of your life has a blank space for “job”. “Nuclear reactor operator and part-time blogger.”

To the “gifted students” from my high school that are anything but:
To the former athletes working shiftwork at the local papermill:
To the drug-using dropouts who were never worth a damn:
To every bully I’ve ever encountered through all my years of school:

Fuck all of you, I controlled a nuclear reactor.

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