Change is………good?

We had a meeting with the site VP, the superintendent of Operations, Operations training manager, Operations Manager and all of the instructors on Friday. It looked bad, like the class was going to be canceled or something similar and it was, in a way. The staffing at the other unit sucks, and this is causing the SRO’s at that unit to want off of shift even more and the lack of availability of positions is causing them the same SRO’s to leave. So, in an effort to stem this hemorage, our class was changed to Unit 2. This is a definite issue with some of us, so much in fact that we will most likely lose 2 candidates, one RO and one SRO. My initial reaction is that from a field operator or licensed RO point of view, Unit 2 sucks because of the layout of the plant, but that the newer control room components may be nicer in the long run. As an aside, Unit 1 was licensed and operating before TMI-2 and Unit 2 was re-modeled and licensed after. It makes a huge difference in layout, but not so much in system operations. More updates as they occur!!