Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Three things come to mind
1. Helped design and oversee the construction of a metals coating rig which was used to coat enriched Uranium fuel. There was a lot of glass and some of it got bunged up one night, at which point part of the rig exploded under pressure and we ended up coating the lab walls in a lovely purple Iodine / UO2 mixture.
2. I was cleanng some molybdenum with some Hydrofluoric Acid once and left it in contact a bit too long. HF fumes went up the glove box extract and I don't think anyone was ever the wiser
3. I was making some Lithium Oxide pellets which were eventually going to be used in a test environment as part of a Nuclear Fusion project to create Tritium. The first step was to make sure they survived a good dose of radiation so we sent them off to a research reactor ( in Karlsruhe if my memory serves me right ? ). Unfortunately, unbeknown to me, one of the sieves I used had also been used by one of the shift lads to make something based on a Europium mix. They whipped our samples out of the reactor at the end of their irradiation test only to quickly put them in a bloody great lead box because they were setting off monitors like there was no tomorrow.
Happy days, but for obvious reasons, I've been office based for quite some time now.
1. Helped design and oversee the construction of a metals coating rig which was used to coat enriched Uranium fuel. There was a lot of glass and some of it got bunged up one night, at which point part of the rig exploded under pressure and we ended up coating the lab walls in a lovely purple Iodine / UO2 mixture.
2. I was cleanng some molybdenum with some Hydrofluoric Acid once and left it in contact a bit too long. HF fumes went up the glove box extract and I don't think anyone was ever the wiser
3. I was making some Lithium Oxide pellets which were eventually going to be used in a test environment as part of a Nuclear Fusion project to create Tritium. The first step was to make sure they survived a good dose of radiation so we sent them off to a research reactor ( in Karlsruhe if my memory serves me right ? ). Unfortunately, unbeknown to me, one of the sieves I used had also been used by one of the shift lads to make something based on a Europium mix. They whipped our samples out of the reactor at the end of their irradiation test only to quickly put them in a bloody great lead box because they were setting off monitors like there was no tomorrow.
Happy days, but for obvious reasons, I've been office based for quite some time now.
