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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.
V. Piffl, Vl. Weinzettl, A. Burdakov, S. Polosatkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 231-236
Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963601
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An imaging spectroscopy becomes one of the fundamental method of the radial profile study of the light impurities line emission of high temperature plasmas. The application of the spherical dispersion elements (as diffraction grids and a multilayer mirrors) makes it possible an image of the radial profile of the chosen spectral line intensity.
The line spectrum measurements of the light impurities emission in 50 - 200 nm wavelength range at different plasmas equipment (tokamak CASTOR and GOL-3) has been provided by Seya-Namioka spectrometer equipped by spherical diffraction grid and a two dimensional detection system. The especial arrangement of the optical trace has been used for high imaging resolution in plasma radial direction.
The novel diagnostic method can provide the way of impurity transport investigation [1]. It is well known, the transport effects lead to some deviations of the radial distribution of the line emission density from those calculated using pure coronal equilibrium. They can be deduced from chordal measurements of the radial profiles of the spectral line intensity and or intensity ratios of spectral lines of different ionisation stages both measured by chord-integrating spectrometer.