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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.
Won Il Ko, Jong Won Choi, Jae Sol Lee, Hyun Soo Park, Kun Jai Lee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 127 | Number 1 | July 1999 | Pages 123-140
Technical Note | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2989
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A simulation technique has been applied for evaluation of the Direct Use of Pressurized water reactor (PWR) spent fuel In Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactors (DUPIC) fuel-cycle cost incorporating uncertainty terms that have often been a controversial factor in economic analyses. With a view to look at actual scenarios, the present and future Korean nuclear grids with both PWRs and CANDUs were assumed. The resulting values were compared with such conventional options as reprocessing with mixed-oxide fuel to recycle, as well as direct disposal. The results of the probabilistic analysis indicate that the DUPIC fuel cycle could be an option competitive with direct disposal and superior to the reprocessing option. The cost difference between direct disposal and DUPIC options, although dependent on assumed scenarios of nuclear grids, was very small.