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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.
Sunanta Patrashakorn, Reiner Papp
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 7-12
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32550
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Coprocessing is conceived as a method in which the plutonium is never available in a separate stream. In addition, it is possible to keep the transuranium actinides with the plutonium and uranium streams rather than allowing them to leave with the fission products and terminate in the high level waste. The recovered actinide product can be reconstructed as a fuel and recycled in light water reactors. But even after nine cycles the fuel composition does not reach equilibrium. Since the plutonium is never separated from other actinides, the potential of proliferation can be reduced.
