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Fermi2:

--- Quote from: Nuclear Renaissance on Feb 04, 2009, 06:24 ---I take it you're off to Clinton - congratulations.

As for the BWR6, it's got 3 safety divisions (most BWRs have 2), so I would recommend starting at the 20000 ft level of understanding the 3-division electrical distribution and start working your way down from there.

They'll teach you everything you need to know, though, but if you have aspirations of getting in the control room someday, that's a proficiency you'll want to start honing sooner rather than later.



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Don't bye into that Three Safety Divisions BS. On the surface it;s true but all that did was take one Quasi Divisional Steam Driven Safety System (HPCI) and turned it into a Diesel Backed Motor Driven Pump (HPCS) Realistically and from a License/TS standpoint the change is indistinguishable.

The main differences are the design of the Containment Building and the Reactivity Controls, though I heard BWR 6s are going to VFDs vice VPVs.

Mike

Mike

BoilerHP:
I was able to run off a copy of GE's BWR 6 Manual when I was there over the summer. I am going to dig that out and start reading it. This will very likely not teach me anything about operations, but its something to do and I can get to know the plant and plant design that much better.

Mike,
I take it you are currently at a PWR now? How was the transition from BWR to PWR (I assume at the SRO level), or were you a NEO or RO at both PWR and BWR prior to moving up. I have wondered how that works, since I heard there are certain aspects that are all most completely opposite.

Thanks again everyone!

Fermi2:
I came from the Navy so my background was in PWR's. A Navy PWR is nothing like a commercial PWR so eh. I went straight from the Navy to working at a BWR 4. I was an NLO there for a couple years, then I got my RO license, followed shortly by my SRO License. I went from NLO to SM in about 9 years. It wasn't that tough of a transition from PWR to BWR especially since I started from the ground up.

After spending 14.5 years at a BWR I went straight from being an SM at Fermi to being an SM at Sequoyah, a 2 unit Westinghouse 4 Loop PWR. The technical transition wasn't tough, after all when push comes to shove it's just neutrons bouncing around and banging into *stuff*, only the events that control that are different. Once you get a License you learn a LOT of tricks as to what you need to learn to get another license. The biggest issue for me was it took TVA too long to get me through License school. Over 26 months and they could have put me in a room by myself for 5 months, gave me about 6 weeks of simulator training and I coulod have gotten it on my own 19 months sooner.

The biggest adjustment for me wasn't technical, it was learning a different utilities administration procedures and how to get things done. Also going from a Single Unit BWR to a Dual Unit PWR that has common systems was a bit challenging because the thought process on how you perform maintenance is a bit different also it's easy to get wrapped up on one unit and forget I'm responsible for another.

And yes Technically some stuff is EXACTLY backwards.

Mike





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BoilerHP:
I was having a discussion with a friend, in a dual unit site is every system a 100% independent of one another? So basically my question is: Could an event on Unit 1, affect and then trip Unit 2?

Fermi2:
It depends quite actually on how the site is designed. Some events at Sequoyah will affect both units, an example being the Service water system is interconnected. Also some systems are linked by the license, for example it's a two unit site, with one control room and a common control room ventilation system. By the License of the Control Room Ventilation system fails both Units are required to Shutdown.

Mike

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