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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
Yoshinori Kawamura, Satoshi Konishi, Masataka Nishi, Toshiya Kakuta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 1035-1039
Blanket Material and Process | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22741
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The blanket tritium recovery system using the hydrogen pump with solid electrolyte membrane has been proposed by the present authors. Perovskite-type ceramic such as SrCe0.95Yb0.05O3-a, is one of the candidate protonic conductor for hydrogen pump and its ionic hydrogen transportation properties are being investigated. Deuterium transportation properties were investigated and were compared with H2 to understand the isotope effect. The basic hydrogen isotope transportation property of SrCe0.95Yb0.05O3-a, its technical feasibility, and issues for further development toward practical devices were revealed.
