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ANSI STANDARDS - Did they Change?

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HPKC:
Thank you Eric for the explanation and thank you Gone Sailin'.  Good article (except the links wouldn't work for me).  It still answered a lot of my questions.

Eric, how do the plants get away with signing off on someone?  I've worked several jobs where people with the same "in plant" qualifications as me have been bumped up to senior techs.  Are the plants just taking a chance that something won't go wrong where they're held accountable and have to prove the person's time?

In response to SST's post, unfortunately I've worked some plants where "meeting specific qualifications regardless of time" would never happen.  Some plants have been generous with letting a Jr. jump in with the Sr. and do valve breeches, diver coverage, etc.  Other plants I've worked you can't get off the SOP even if you're kicking and screaming.

I'm just really frustrated as I feel I can smear and clear anything you could send my way or handle just about any situation that could come across a SOP.  I'm eager to move on and broaden my horizons.

Surveyors_mato:

--- Quote from: HPKC on Dec 02, 2004, 05:27 ---I'm just really frustrated as I feel I can smear and clear anything you could send my way or handle just about any situation that could come across a SOP.  I'm eager to move on and broaden my horizons.

--- End quote ---

I feel your pain. These are great questions. One of my concerns is more along the lines of what I don't know. Learning and having the ability to learn are really two different things. I don't have a degree in a science. I often find myself a bit overwhelmed by the things that we have to know and what there is still to learn.

  I dare say, I feel some of this is bigger than my brain. This may be a good thing as it causes me to question more readily, the tasks I am less experianced with. I'm sure there are many of us in this field, that feel the same. I do, I think, have one of, if not the most important traits. That being common sense. I have seen that as lacking in some techs. Those who just do it by the numbers and if it goes south, they are lost.

  I want to do what I do and do it well. We all do. Standardization could solve this problem and maybe with Bartlett being the leader in the industry(like it or not), We will all end up on the same sheet of music. Same requirments, same testing, same quals, same goal.

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refarnam:
Here are some other links you may want to consider reading in an effort to understand the qualification issue (from the perspective of someone who has been cited by the NRC for vendor techs that don't meet the ANSI, it is a tangled web):

http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/radiation/hppos/hppos238.html

http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/radiation/hppos/hppos022.html

http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/radiation/hppos/hppos021.html

For those with Dual qualfications:

http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/radiation/hppos/hppos067.html

Specifically mentioning Vendor Techs:

http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/radiation/hppos/hppos019.html

let-it-ride:
Here is a story I remember about sign offs at Surry a long time ago.

On Friday a guy was a Sr. Deconner. Monday a Jr. HP. Before the outage was over, a Sr. HP.  When questioned, the reply was "we need Sr. and he is a good guy"

So the recruiters have to follow the requirements, it is the utilities who can use them any way they like.

Now with the DOE, anyone who passes the Core is in there, even with very minimal experience.

jowlman:
The best place to find the actual ANSI standard is your local unemployment office. They're the ones that have to look up job desciptions when you go to file your claim.

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