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Onsite duties prior to instant SRO training

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Fermi2:
Get assigned to an Operating shift. Rotate with them. Go to training with them. Ask them questions do rounds. Learn the job of every single member of that shift. Spend a day with Chemistry, Radcon, Maintenance and Engineering.

Also make DARN sure your utility has processed whatever waivers are required for you to take the exam.

Mike

alphacookie:

--- Quote from: Broadzilla on Jun 25, 2007, 04:54 ---Get assigned to an Operating shift. Rotate with them. Go to training with them. Ask them questions do rounds. Learn the job of every single member of that shift. Spend a day with Chemistry, Radcon, Maintenance and Engineering.

Also make DARN sure your utility has processed whatever waivers are required for you to take the exam.

Mike

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I was finally able to get a hold of my soon to be Assistant Ops Manager and he pretty much had the same idea.

My goal is to get in, learn as much as possible from anyone and everyone, take my lumps, forget as much of the negative Navy crap as possible and enjoy myself.

Thanks for your help.

RDTroja:

--- Quote from: alphacookie on Jun 26, 2007, 01:31 ---My goal is to get in, learn as much as possible from anyone and everyone, take my lumps, forget as much of the negative Navy crap as possible and enjoy myself.
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That sounds like a very good blueprint for success in any chosen career path (nuclear or otherwise.) Good luck to you and welcome to NukeWorker.com.

flamatrix99:
I am currently in my 6 month window waiting for HLO class to start in the middle of next month. We had a lot of admin duties assigned to us (answering CRs and Apparent Cause Evaluations) and had to attend approx 4 weeks of supervisor training. We also did observations of Ops training, did some rounds with the NLOs and did a little walking around on our own.

I have to admit it was not what I had in mind when I took the job.  At my previous plant the Instant SROs had a qual card they did on locations, operator rounds and basic systems knowledge. I was fortunate enough that I got to go support another plant during their outage. I learned the most during that time especially since I have a PWR background now I am in a BWR world.

tr:
In addition to the above, try to walk down as many of the main systems as possible (especially feedwater, condensate, cooling water systems, accessible portions of safety systems, main steam, and the turbine).  For the systems like feedwater and condensate, try to walk them down from the start to the end, to help get a feel for where the system is, and what the flowpath is.   This will help immensely once you get into the systems class and the simulator.  Going on rounds (where you typically examine all the systems in a given area) doesn't always help you understand how the system actually functions. 

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