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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.
R. Carlander, S. D. Harkness, F. L. Yaggee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 67-75
Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28387
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Tensile properties of irradiated Type-304 stainless steel have been measured. These results have been correlated with microstructural observations obtained by optical and transmission electron microscopy techniques. The material studied was irradiated in a fast-neutron environment to a peak exposure of 4.8 × 1022 n/cm2 at temperatures ranging from 371 to 463°C in the EBR-II reactor. True yield stresses were observed to increase, and true uniform strains to decrease with both increasing neutron exposure and decreasing irradiation temperature for test temperatures <750°C. At 750°C no increases in true yield stresses over control values were noted while sharp decreases in true uniform strains were observed. It is suggested that some annealing of the microstructure occurs at this elevated temperature, allowing helium to be accumulated at grain boundaries. Microstructural examination by transmission electron microscopy revealed homogeneous distributions of polyhedral voids and Frank dislocation loops. Neither deject was observed to form on grain boundaries. It is suggested that the dislocation loop formation is primarily responsible for the increased strength of the irradiated material. Immersion density measurements are included. These results indicate that the peak void formation did not occur at the maximum flux position, thus indicating the importance of temperature to the phenomenon.