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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.
Yoshihiro Yamane, Minoru Shinkawa, Kojiro Nishina
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 2 | November 1979 | Pages 244-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19469
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For single-core reflected neutronic systems, generalized neutron generation time is derived and given physical interpretations in terms of importance. A system kinetic equation containing the moderator region response function previously introduced is reduced by a slow-variation approximation to the form of a conventional one-point kinetic equation, in which a parameter can be identified as generalized neutron generation time by analogy with a bare system. In such a mathematical expression for the parameter, one can further identify the amount of increase due to reflection over the bare system generation time. This amount is found to be the reflection time multiplied by the number of migrations that neutrons undergo between reflector and core in one generation. The theoretical generation time of the SHE assembly, a thermal-energy, graphite-moderated critical assembly, calculated by such a formulation with cylindrical geometry, agreed well with that from pulsed neutron experiments.