
Divers Find Risky Work In Nuclear Reactor Pools
January 20, 2007 @ 05:36 PM (EST)
Source: Nwarktimes.com
David Harner pulled on a fitted Lycra outfit with thin tubes snaking around his body carrying cold water and attached pencil-thin monitoring devices to his thighs, biceps, chest and back. Co-workers helped him into a red rubber suit and a helmet attached to an oxygen line.
Harner then lowered himself into a pool of warm water that had the faint, distant blue glow of fuel rods.
"Not everyone would want to jump in a nuclear reactor," Harner says. "It's a definite breed."...
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