Doesn't Everyone Stop at Nuclear Power Plants while on Vacation?

First need to say that this refers to vacations in a pre 9/11 world.

Dad was an engineer.  He went to Alfred University and RIT.  He had a certificate in engineering; they didn't give degrees in it back then.  Technically he was a mechanical engineer, but for a large part of his career he worked in the nuclear field.  See, when he started they didn't have nuclear engineers, shoot there was no such thing, he was a pioneer. He worked on the first nuclear submarine.  He was very proud of that.  He also worked on most of the nuclear power plants that are on the east coast, which we visited at least one every vacation.  If there was a nuke plant within a 50 mile range of where we were going we stopped at the plant.  There are more pictures of me or mom or both in front of nuke plants, I thought everyone stopped at them while on vacation. according to Dad they were the 8th wonder of the world.  I think Dad took it personally when the 3 Mile Island accident took the wind out of the nuke program.  He would argue/debate the pros - there were no cons - of nuclear power with anyone who disagreed with him. 

A couple of years ago Dad was having Sunday dinner with Michael and I and the discussion somehow started on nuclear power.  Thinking I had hear all of the stories ... many times, I zoned out, but Michael was right there asking all kinds of questions.  Must be a guy thing.  Anyway, Dad starts talking about some project he was working, and how he and the group he was working with had to invent the clean room ( you know those all white rooms with filtered air, ect that you see on TV).  Maybe its one of those things you had to be there, but I just thought it was really cool ... my Dad help to invent the cleanroom .... build the first nuclear submarine and was involved very early in the building of nuclear power plants.

Dad was also involved very early on ... in the 1950s ... in the wind energy ... but that is another story .... maybe tomorrow.