The main function of the baffle is to provide support for the fuel assemblies and do very moderate amount of shielding the reactor vessel from neutron fluence...Here's a brief synopsis of our 3-loop Westinghouse PWR's as far as flow goes:
Approximately 93% of the Rx. coolant flow passes in this...
Although I am a PWR Reactor Engineer I would suspect that the reactivity difference you are speaking of is based on core location. It is all relative to the power of the surrounding assemblies. As you can imagine the power desity is higher towards the center of the core (not actually highest...
Ah I understand, yeah I love being an RE, but it is very time consuming, we only have two my Senior Engineer (we have two units). I have a feeling I'll be getting asked to go to the next SRO class, so I'll definitely do that but I do not want to spend my career in the Control Room, Id gladly do...
Tim, you make outstanding points, I see that you are a Mechanical Engineer, I take it you do quite a bit of Nuclear Work. I am a Reactor Engineer at Beaver Valley with my degree in NucE from Penn State. This stuff makes me absolutely cringe and its hard to keep calm when debating with someone...
Thanks for the info, Tim. I guess you can sense my sarcasm about the critical geometry, just another thing to add to a long line of things such as Doppler Effect that would keep the fuel from doing what Mike Gray thinks.
All good points Tim, I finally read the Dateline transcript to get the full story, who in the heck is this guy and has he even taken a nuclear course in his life? Best point you make is what scientist or engineer actually uses the term "China Syndrome"? Seriuosly not enough water in...
Gearing up for an outage so not much time to reply. However what I did see of Dateline made me ill. Seriuosly, ill to my stomach. What a production, sheesh.
Tim S. Pretty much hit it right on the head. Word of advice, learn as much as you can about the systems other than the one's dealing with RE's. It'll help you so much especially when you become an SRO candidate and it will make you invaluable at your work place. No doubt you'll be in the...
Training is similar no matter where you go in the Nulclear Power Plant game, It will take about 6 months but most plants like to spead it out over a year, like 1 week of training a week in the office. The training usually consists of "academic" which is Thermo, Reactor Physics...
BEACON is software designed by Westinghouse for reactor engineers. Used for startups and shutdowns, flux mapping, reactor suviellance. I guess instead of doing a monthly flux map, Only 2/year need be done, or so the pamphlet says. We ar thikning about inorporating it here...
