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Memories Of My Past

by Jim

Rated: 13+ · Book · Community · #2224976

Writings about things that have occurred in my life. Not in Chronological Order

Things that have happened in my life, good or bad. The entries will not be in Chronological order

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Winter's spud❄️

a day ago
In response to "SL-1, The World's First Nuclear Reactor Accident"

I knew things got bad when nuclear stuff goes wrong. Still holy shit, being impaled by a controll rod is a bad day for anybody. Then the people who had to suffer for a long time after the initial incident.

Makes the theme of the "ghost ship" I worked on seem a lot darker and kind of a little too close to reality.(the "curse" kept the crew undying while still suffering from the effects of massive radiation exposure. According to that backstory, we'd been suffering from supernatural radioactive experiments conducted aboard a ship that went missing 80-ish years prior. Anyways.)

S🤦‍♂️

Jan 6, 2026 at 11:55pm
In response to "SL-1, The World's First Nuclear Reactor Accident"

I had never heard of this before! Down here, we were barely told about 3-Mile island, and the only reason I had some knowledge of that was because MAD Magazine made a deal of it!

Is the area around the site still considered contaminated? Did they encase it in concrete like Chernobyl?

Just did not know this had ever occurred. Thank you for the lesson, and with your added knowledge as well.

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Robert Waltz

Jan 6, 2026 at 11:39pm
In response to "SL-1, The World's First Nuclear Reactor Accident"

I'd heard of SL-1, at least what They let us civvies know about it.

But the nuclear foulup that sticks out most in my mind was the Demon Core

(though that was for a weapon, not power), because it was involved in not one but two fatal accidents.

One of which involved someone messing around with neutron shielding by using, instead of shims designed and approved for that purpose, a simple screwdriver.

"I'm just going to handle this near-critical ball of plutonium by manipulating the beryllium cover with this 25-cent (1940s money and just guessing there) tool I picked up at the hardware store." And once again we see that someone may be incredibly smart and still be stupid.

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Soldier_Mike

Jan 6, 2026 at 11:27pm
In response to "SL-1, The World's First Nuclear Reactor Accident"

I've read a couple of articles and seen a couple of YT videos about this. It's terribly sad, of course, but it could have been so much worse.

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Jim

Dec 2, 2025 at 5:59pm
In response to "Starting A Nuclear Reactor"

Kåre เลียม Enga

& ForeverDreamer

we were all very young. When I reported to the USS Theodore Roosevelt, I was only 19! Most of the Nuclear Trained personnel were under 30 years old, our Chief Petty Officers were a little over thirty on average. {susderr:enga} I'm also old. There's no way I could do things like this now, though I'd love to.

While underway, I mentioned that the Throttleman was the busiest. I want to clarify that and say he would only be busy when a new bell (or speed) was ordered on the Engine Order Telegraph (the large dial on the upper right side of the slanted portion of the panel). The large dial on the left hand slanted side showed the Shaft RPM. A certain RPM meant a certain speed (Ahead 1/3. Ahead Standard, Ahead Full, etc). Yes, we were very young, but we were a team. A team of 'Nukes' back aft, a team of Submariners on the boat.

Redtowrite

Nov 22, 2025 at 7:33am
In response to "My Early Years"

This was interesting-it is amazing what we can remember even as young as 3-4. Your life is similar to mine since we are the same age and I was in Michigan until I was 5 and then came to Georgia. When you wrote about the roller skates, I remembered Melanie singing that song about the brand new key. Memory (the brain) is a wonderful thing.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Aug 25, 2025 at 1:34pm
In response to "My Early Days In The Navy"

At least others showed and explained. I valued trainers who knew how to train... not all did.

Winter Wonderin' Wanderin'

Jun 6, 2025 at 11:42am
In response to "My Early Years"

Isn't it amazing what we can retain and remember?

Lazy Writer est 4/24/2008

Jun 6, 2025 at 12:03am
In response to "My Early Years"

You've led an interesting life. I've looked at the old places we've lived and your right that hill wasn't nearly as big as I remembered.

S🤦‍♂️

Jun 5, 2025 at 10:19pm
In response to "My Early Years"

Glad you've come back to this!

Some interesting memories here!

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#58. SL-1, The World's First Nuclear Reactor Accident
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#57. Submarine & Watch Standing Qualification As A NUB
ID #1102831 entered on December 2, 2025 at 8:39pm

#56. USS Alabama SSBN 731
ID #1100571 entered on October 31, 2025 at 8:45pm

#55. My Early Days In The Navy
ID #1095911 entered on October 31, 2025 at 8:19pm

#54. My Early Years
ID #1090834 entered on June 5, 2025 at 10:16pm

#53. Learning To Play The French Horn
ID #1052019 entered on July 2, 2023 at 12:40pm

#52. Halloween, Circa 1988
ID #1051076 entered on June 14, 2023 at 7:19pm

#51. How I Met Two Hollywood Celebrities
ID #1042399 entered on June 1, 2025 at 12:38pm

#50. I Was A 'Bad' Father
ID #1039429 entered on June 1, 2025 at 12:31pm

#49. More 'Sea Stories
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#48. Starting A Nuclear Reactor
ID #1037002 entered on December 2, 2025 at 5:48pm

#47. How Did I Do That?
ID #1036465 entered on June 4, 2025 at 7:03pm

#46. A Better Day
ID #1026051 entered on August 13, 2022 at 10:52pm

#45. Cervical Spine Surgery
ID #1025909 entered on June 1, 2024 at 7:56pm

#44. Another Prompt From The JAFBG
ID #1024242 entered on June 4, 2025 at 7:05pm

#43. What I Did With My TWO Weeks 'Off'
ID #1024063 entered on August 6, 2022 at 10:02am

#42. Blogging Prompt JAFBG
ID #1023938 entered on December 31, 2021 at 11:21pm

#41. Living On A Submarine
ID #1023703 entered on October 19, 2022 at 8:26pm

#40. A Year Of Discovery
ID #1023012 entered on August 6, 2022 at 10:11am

#39. Working From Home Til The End Of 2021
ID #1021987 entered on October 19, 2022 at 8:32pm

#38. Weekend Road Trip
ID #1018085 entered on August 6, 2022 at 10:16am

#37. Wants Vs Needs, General Stuff
ID #1017298 entered on December 2, 2025 at 6:20pm

#36. Life On Submarines, & The Inherent Dangers Of Being On One
ID #1016074 entered on August 6, 2022 at 10:29am

#35. Vacation?
ID #1015608 entered on August 24, 2021 at 8:15pm

#34. Virtual Machines, And Waiting
ID #1015153 entered on October 19, 2022 at 8:37pm

#33. Elvis & The Arizona Memorial
ID #1014823 entered on July 31, 2021 at 11:36pm

#32. Friday Night Date Night & Course Revision Ongoing
ID #1014260 entered on July 24, 2021 at 11:06pm

#31. JAFBG Prompts July 2021
ID #1013409 entered on July 10, 2021 at 3:01pm

#30. Recognized Unexpectedly During A Meeting
ID #1012242 entered on June 20, 2021 at 8:47pm

#29. Childhood Fears
ID #1011763 entered on June 12, 2021 at 8:15pm

#28. A Day In The Life Of A Submariner
ID #1011320 entered on June 4, 2021 at 9:33pm

#27. 15 Hours
ID #1011066 entered on May 31, 2021 at 7:11pm

#26. A Day At The Races
ID #1011022 entered on May 30, 2021 at 4:41pm

#25. Sinus Surgery
ID #1010870 entered on May 27, 2021 at 10:43am

#24. Playing French Horn
ID #1010778 entered on May 25, 2021 at 9:48pm

#23. Nicknames
ID #1010627 entered on May 23, 2021 at 9:11pm

#22. JAFBG Prompts December
ID #999736 entered on December 6, 2020 at 1:21am

#21. Caught Off Guard
ID #989311 entered on May 23, 2021 at 3:17pm

#20. Food Judge?
ID #989218 entered on July 26, 2020 at 9:52pm

#19. Empire Of The East
ID #988979 entered on July 23, 2020 at 7:50pm

#18. Hobbies
ID #988629 entered on July 27, 2020 at 8:40pm

#17. Boycott
ID #988607 entered on July 19, 2020 at 3:41pm

#16. Music - A Day Late
ID #988532 entered on July 18, 2020 at 9:41pm

#15. Neowise
ID #988344 entered on July 16, 2020 at 8:00pm

#14. I Have A Sense Of Humor?
ID #988271 entered on July 15, 2020 at 9:27pm

#13. My Destination Of Choice
ID #988095 entered on July 13, 2020 at 10:51pm

#12. Summer Activity? Year Round!
ID #987998 entered on July 12, 2020 at 10:51pm

#11. Traveling
ID #987921 entered on July 12, 2020 at 11:30am

#10. Social Media
ID #987876 entered on July 11, 2020 at 10:46pm

#9. For Me?
ID #987629 entered on July 9, 2020 at 6:19am

#8. Bill Haley
ID #987604 entered on July 8, 2020 at 9:26pm

#7. How Do I Find Inspiration?
ID #987503 entered on July 7, 2020 at 7:35pm

#6. Bias?
ID #987414 entered on July 6, 2020 at 7:16pm

#5. He Who Inspires Me
ID #987326 entered on July 5, 2020 at 8:02pm

#4. Only 40 Minutes?
ID #987210 entered on July 4, 2020 at 12:50pm

#3. Opportunity Missed
ID #987160 entered on July 3, 2020 at 8:20pm

#2. Moods
ID #987020 entered on July 2, 2020 at 9:35am

#1. Letter To My Parents
ID #986942 entered on July 1, 2020 at 5:48pm

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