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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.
D. P. Stotler
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | September 1992 | Pages 199-207
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30103
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Previously developed procedures that simulate the radiatively induced tokamak density limit are used to examine the scaling of the density limit in more detail. The maximum allowable density increases with auxiliary power and decreases with impurity concentration. However, there is little dependence of the density limit on plasma elongation. These trends are consistent with experimental results. Previous work used coronal equilibrium impurities; the primary result was that the maximum density increases with current when peaked profiles are assumed. Here, this behavior is shown to occur with a coronal nonequilibrium impurity as well.