Nuclear Power

About fifteen years ago, the primary interest was centered around how a nuclear plant worked. "What is fission and what are neutrons?" After we had completed the Yankee plant, we found that people wanted to hear about our experiences with the plant and about our plans to put that experience to work in future plants here in New England. Then, perhaps six or seven years ago, and up until about three years ago, it seemed that people lost interest in things nuclear. During that particular period, we received very few requests to make presentations. As a result, during that period we who are engaged in the nuclear industry made what turned out to be a serious mistake. We assumed that nuclear plants had been accepted and that our job was simply to design them and to operate them as economically and as safely as we knew how.