Introduction

Note... most of the interesting stuff here is under the Root Cause Analysis section or in my blog, Common Blogarithms.

Hi. Welcome to my eclectic website, where I display in public the clutter that fills my brain. Maybe you'll find something useful here, or maybe not. All I know for sure is that I need to have some kind of outlet for my half-formed ideas. I'm hoping that the discipline required to put these ideas into words (and publish them here) will help me, somehow.

I am a nuclear engineer with a Master's degree from Mississippi State University. I did some work at Argonne National Lab while I was in grad school. I then went to work for Entergy Nuclear, where I worked in BWR Physics Support and later as a Reactor Engineer at River Bend Station. I also worked at TransWare Enterprises for a while, primarily doing reactor analysis code development.

Since mid-2002, I've been working at Ontario Power Generation doing corrective actions work. I started out with the Construction department of the Pickering-A Return-to-Service project, which you can read about here. When that project ended, I transferred into the Training department for a brief time to do some work on Computer Based Training. Then I spent a few months in the Root Cause Team for Pickering-B, and then finally transitioned into the station's main corrective actions group. I still perform root cause investigations now and then, but I'm also involved in the day-to-day operation of the corrective action program.

Quite a few people have wondered why I don't get back into the more technical side of the nuclear business. I haven't done much engineering work at all for a few years. Believe it or not, I like the corrective actions business more! Yes, nuclear engineering can be complicated and interesting, but problem solving on an organizational level is even more complicated and interesting. Trust me, nothing else has ever held my interest for this long; I think I've found my niche.

Thanks for visiting my site. Take a look around, check it out, and please let me know if you see anything that doesn't look right. Email me: bdot (at) bill-wilson.net. Cheers!