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Career Path => Getting in => Topic started by: Longhornfan on Jul 25, 2011, 05:55

Title: Systems Final
Post by: Longhornfan on Jul 25, 2011, 05:55

Systems final is over with no failures.  Now its time to see if we can put all that knowledge to use in the simulator.  One more domino has fallen.

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: Higgs on Jul 25, 2011, 06:10

Congratulations! Good luck! It all comes together in the simulator! PWR or BWR?

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: DDMurray on Jul 25, 2011, 06:22

Congrats!  Keep reviewing your systems.  This will benefit you greatly in AOPs, EOPs, and Integrated Plant.  The simulator is awesome.  Never pass up a chance to get time on the boards. 

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: MacGyver on Jul 25, 2011, 07:02

Congrats LF.  Enjoy the sim.

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: Longhornfan on Jul 27, 2011, 09:59

Quote from: TheHiggs on Jul 25, 2011, 06:10

Congratulations! Good luck! It all comes together in the simulator! PWR or BWR?

PWR.  Thank you for all the well wishes...I will readily admit that this has been the hardest thing I have attempted in my life all in all...and not being a young man anymore doesn't make things any easier.  I can take the Grandpa references since I am still hanging with the young pups. Mostly they just call me "Grumpy".

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: Higgs on Jul 27, 2011, 07:39

Excellent. 75% through systems here. I miss my boiler though. :P

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: Fermi2 on Jul 27, 2011, 08:32

Systems Systems Systems! Study Systems!

Higgs, I had major boiler withdrawal man but I do love PWR EOPs even though there are a lot of them. I will say I miss the Wild West Mentality of BWR EOPs.

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: Higgs on Jul 27, 2011, 08:35

Quote from: Broadzilla on Jul 27, 2011, 08:32

Systems Systems Systems! Study Systems!

Higgs, I had major boiler withdrawal man but I do love PWR EOPs even though there are a lot of them. I will say I miss the Wild West Mentality of BWR EOPs.

That is EXACTLY what I miss. ;D

I take a lot of crap in class because they guys all say we boiler people are just cowboys shooting from the hip. :P

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: HydroDave63 on Jul 27, 2011, 08:42

Quote from: TheHiggs on Jul 27, 2011, 08:35

I take a lot of crap in class because they guys all say we boiler people are just cowboys shooting from the hip. :P

At least during a full load rejection at EOL with a pot full of MOX fuel ;)

Title: Re: Systems Final
Post by: Fermi2 on Jul 28, 2011, 02:42

Quote from: TheHiggs on Jul 27, 2011, 08:35

That is EXACTLY what I miss. ;D

I take a lot of crap in class because they guys all say we boiler people are just cowboys shooting from the hip. :P

During the debrief when I got my BWR SRO License the lead examiner told my plant and ops manager that not only was a buckaroo  who fired from the hip, that somehow I managed to fire straight through the holster and reload to fire again without ever taking the gun out of the holster. Back then getting out the flow charts was not a requirement, so I didn't get them out during my exam. Sometimes I miss those days.

(On the other hand he did acknowledge I hit everything I shot at!)