Nuclear Engineer

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Costas Philippou

Training centre Cyprus. Middle East region. Mediterranean.Europe.
May be the best training facilities / and training programs in the world for working at height training.
Combine all types of ladders, wood poles, platforms, roofs, scaffolding, confine space, walls.
During training all candidates become familiar with different type of harness, ropes, anchors, descent devices, including all types of fall arrest system and rescue that are available in the market.
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Training facilities had been design specially to minimize the time needs for delivering of training theory and practice and candidates to get all knowledge needed to work at height safe.
Comply with HSE UK guides. BS8454 /ACWATH /Working at height regulations 2005 EU.
• Be aware of the legislative requirements pertaining to working at height
(General Application) Regulations 2005. Regulations 2007 Part 4
• Be able to conduct a risk assessment of working at height and plan for working at height

• Be able to implement a safe system of work while working at height

• Understand the general principles of safety for working at height

• Understand the different types of fall protection systems and equipment available

• Be aware of the maintenance and inspection requirements of personnel fall protection equipment

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Company personnel who are responsible for the planning, evaluating and work at height

• Environmental, Health and Safety personnel

COURSE PROGRAMME

• Introduction to Work at Height

• Legislation applicable to Work at Height including the General Application Regulations 2007 Part 4

• Risk Assessment for Work at Height

• Safe System of Work

• Selection and Use of Personal Fall Protection Systems and Equipment

• Restraint Systems

• Inspecting Fall Arrest Equipment

• Organization

• Planning and risk assessment of work at height

• Checking of places of work at height

• Avoidance of risks from work at height

• Protection of places of work at height

• Selection of work equipment for work at height

• Condition and stability of structure

• Additional requirements for scaffolding

• Collective safeguards for arresting falls

• Personal fall protection systems

• Ladders

• Inspection of work equipment

• Rescue
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Κατάρτιση προσωπικού για εργασία σε ύψος

ΥΨΟΣ με βάση την Νομοθεσία και τους κανονισμούς είναι οποιοδήποτε σημείο, πάνω ή κάτω από το έδαφος, που δυνατό μετά από πτώση του ατόμου να του προκαλέσει τραυματισμό ή ακόμη το θάνατο.

Ο κάθε εργοδότης έχει την ευθύνη να παρέχει στον εργοδοτούμενο :
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και μέσα σε λογικά πλαίσια να μεριμνά για την υγεία και ασφάλεια του.

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A well-known Iranian dissident, Alireza Jafarzadeh, is speaking out today about a potential secret nuclear program going on inside of Iran. Jon Scott spoke to former UN Ambassador John Bolton, who said while not unexpected, this is a “very significant revelation.”

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Can someone enlighten me upon the different parts located within a nuclear reactor along with details concerning the removal and treatment of wastes? One might possibly as well include the aspects involved in collecting energy.
I need to do a research project on this; any books or sites recommended would be of great help as well and even preferable.
I appreciate any guidance given to me, thank you.

That is a lot of ground you want to cover. Just addressing the safety aspects takes a book. Waste (spent fuel as well as lesser wastes such as derived from other materials and their irradiation) management would and does take up additional books.

Much of what you need to know about nuclear plant safety starts with the safety culture, which is addressed in some detail at my web site at http://technidigm.org/technuke/nuclear.htm .It will be a bit over your head, most likely, as it covers the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program nuclear safety culture more than the less focused culture found at most commercial nuclear plants.

There are also many websites to go to, such as that for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the one for the Nuclear Energy Institute, a nuclear utility sponsored organization that promotes the industry and also coordinates industry communications to a large degree. You can Google those sites yourself.

Overall, besides the culture and regulations, the safety of each nuclear plant depends on "inherent" safety features such as natural circulation of water through the reactor core to keep removing heat even when the reactor coolant water pumps lose electric power. Safety is also ensured by dedicated safety systems designed to automatically react to any conceivable malfunction that might cause the reactor core to overheat. There are many sensors, power supplies, pumps, and valves of various kinds that are installed in the nuclear power plant just to ensure safety. The systems are tested and inspected a lot to make sure that they work or would work under certain conditions.

Then we even assume that all that design effort, culture, and safety systems fail and put the reactor and the high pressure systems inside a containment building capable of preventing the release of radiation, something that the Chernobyl Reactor in the Soviet Union did not have. They also did not have an adequate safety culture, and their basic reactor design was even unstable in ways that require a degree in nuclear engineering to understand.

As to how the reactor works, it simply generates heat in a pressurized water environment so that the water does not turn into steam while it is in the reactor core area. That helps remove the heat from the reactor core’s heat transfer surfaces, a complex honeycomb of fuel tubes banded together to create a critical mass of fissile material but also a large heat transfer surface to allow easy removal of the fissile heat that comes out as heat to heat the reactor coolant water.

That pressurized hot water can be flashed into steam to drive a turbine generator to get a lot of electric power. That is called a boiling water reactor (BWR). Most nuclear power plants keep the water pressurized and pump it through a heat exchanger called a steam generator, which has thousands of heat transfer tubes that conduct the primary coolant water heat to the secondary system called the steam system. That steam then goes through the turbines to generate power.

All the turbine steam loses its energy passing through the turbines and has to be condensed using another tube and shell heat transfer component simply called the condenser. This exhaust steam is condensed to water so that it can be pumped back into the steam generator or reactor at high pressure for transferring heat again..

The condenser transfer the remaining heat to the environment such as a lake, river, bay, ocean, or one of those hyperbolic cooling towers that seem to be a nuclear plant icon these days. Coal fired plants use them too, sometimes, but no one pays much attention to coal fired plants, even though they released their waste directly into the air we breathe.

Nuclear plant waste is essentially metallic and can be recycled to recover extra uranium and the rest buried safely forever, as needed. Nuclear plant waste is only a problem in the minds of people who don’t understand it or simply don’t want to due to their need to grasp at anything to get the public’s attention and try to sway opinions against nuclear power, for no apparent reason as far as nuclear engineers can tell.

I have yet to meet an anti-nuke who understands the subject adequately to have an intelligent conversation on the subject, but that does not help you much with your research.

i am planning to go in nuclear engineering, but not many universities offer nuclear program. so can i do BS in mechanical engineering and then PhD in nuclear.

I have a BS in NucE…. I think ME and NucE go together incredibly well. You should not go to the same university for grad school and undergrad – that is considered intellectual incest. Instead, choose your ME school. Once you are there, pick your grad school.

How much difference would it make to design a nuclear reactor’s containment vessel, which appears to be the last line of defense in a nuclear power plant’s malfunction, that would sit over a well at least 500ft. to a 1,000ft in depth? Wouldn’t that make it easier for a last resort effort such as dropping the vessel down a well to consider it sealed and, therefore, much safer for the World? Just one option…………

Interesting idea.
You’d have to design the well to avoid groundwater contamination. So basically you’d be trying to design a nuclear waste repository silo, then sitting the reactor on top.
It seems to be incredibly difficult politically to site these repositories, which is one reason why spent fuel is accumulating in cooling ponds instead of being shipped off to permanent storage.

The Fukushima designs are 40 years old and they did the best they could at the time, including detailed risk analysis. The risk of pond failure was estimated at 1/million reactor-years in an earthquake zone, allowing for personnel being distracted by an earthquake. Guess they didn’t figure in the tsunami.
Some later designs have an explicit concrete meltdown catcher, designed to dissipate heat by conduction but still inside the containment building.

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James Betchley

And how do we prevent it?
Other than not doing any fission :P
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THANKS

First of all there are risks, safety concerns, with any energy resource. We in the nuclear industry have made safety our top priority. If you look at the statistics, nuclear has been one of the safest industries to work in over the last 40 years, not just safest power producers.
Dams break, ice falls from wind towers, heavy metals are used in solar panels, fossil fuels release byproducts to the environment.
Nuclear Safety Concerns:
1. Nuclear accident due to operator or maintenance error. Operators & maintenance personnel train incessantly to prevent and mitigate the occurrence, every US nuclear power site has a simulator. The nuclear industry takes a pro-active approach sharing any information learned from experience at sites across the world to minimize risk at nuclear facilities. (See INPO/WANO) A strong Safety Conscious Work Environment is fostered.
3. Nuclear accident due to sabotage/terrorism. Nuclear facilities are considered "hard" targets, with heavily armed and highly trained guards, response plans, fences, robust barriers to prevent unauthorized access to vital areas. Many of the same features designed to keep the primary plant safe in the event of an accident make it very difficult to attack (example 1 meter thick reinforced concrete containment structure) All personnel with access to vital areas have a FBI background check and psychological examination.
4. Release of radioactivity from used fuel, nuclear waste. Used fuel is in the same physical shape as new fuel, a ceramic pellet contained within a stainless steel tube formed into a fuel assembly. (most common design) this is not likely to release its contents very easily. We keep these fuel assemblies in a spent fuel pool safely under water and eventually place it into robust casks for storage, transportation and retrieval. Volume wise this is a fairly small amount of waste, we have all the fuel used in our 500 Mw plant’s 40 year life in a 40′x40′x40′ pool.
5. Nuclear proliferation by rogue nations terrorists from used fuel. There are much easier ways to obtain fissile material than taking it from used fuel from a Commercial nuclear power plant.