Talk:PM-1

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It started out as the APPR, at the Army Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission on 1717 H St. in Washington, DC. The Branch then moved with the AEC to Germantown, Maryland. The Supervisor was Richard Oehl, and we had a few other amateurs at Nuclear Power who were supposedly reviewing the design work, but often doing it ourselves. Me, Bill Brunot, the junior, worked with Bob Raftery, Paul Lualdi, Richard Land. I think Land actually knew something about physics - he was hilarious, eccentric guy. My only background was that I failed a course in Nuclear power at Notre Dame. Lualdi had graduated from MIT, and was a good mechanical engineer. He bought a red VW Karman Ghia which I got some good rides in. Bob Raftery said he got into Nuclear because he was a sharpshooter,and was hired at Hanford to shoot any ducks that landed on the radioactive water in the cooling ponds at Hanford, so they wouldn't fly somewhere else and contaminate somebody's dinner. I did reactor pressure vessel stress analysis.

Bill Brunot