Re: Ironic Project Names

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, the memories, John.  I worked for one of the subcontractors on two 
of the WPPSS plants.  It was poorly conceived, planned, and managed from 
the start; all of the contractors knew that and said so.  It was built 
on change orders because no one had a clue what the plan was, including 
(especially) the system's project managers. 


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John Earl wrote:
> My all time favorite project name has to be the Washington Public Power
> Supply System - an ambitious program to build 5 nuclear power plants in
> Washington State.  Earlier on it gained the moniker 'WPPSS' (pronounced:
> whoops).  
>
> In the early 1980's it was so badly troubled that they had only
> completed 1 of the 5 power plants and then were forced to declare
> bankruptcy and default on billions of dollars in publicly financed bonds
> (the largest public bond failure of all time).  Investors all over the
> world lost their shirts.
>
> WHOOPS!
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> > Pantzopoulos, Michael wrote:
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> > > I know of a project here in Australia which is code-named 'Daytona'.
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> > > Unfortunately the project is having some issues and we realized,
> > > cynically of course, that Daytona could actually mean 'Go round and
> > > round in circles until you crash and burn'. That got me wondering
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> > > many other projects are out there have been named in an ultimately
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