"BJohnson11" (brettjohnson01)
06/05/2014 at 21:55 • Filed to: None
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"BJohnson11" (brettjohnson01)
06/05/2014 at 21:55 • Filed to: None | 1
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It's not every day you get to tour a nuclear power plant. One of the benefits of taking Thermo 2 with the hardest professor in the ME department is that every quarter he takes his students on a tour of the plant so we can see in real life the machines and processes we've been analyzing on paper.
A few thoughts. Holy crap, they have a lot of security. Understandably so, but I wasn't expecting that. Also, everything is huge. Like, really huge. But overall, even though our tour through was quick, it was a very cool thing to see and probably a once in a lifetime opportunity. Neat to see how they handle the uranium as well (didn't see it on the tour, but they showed us the process in video).
f86sabre
> BJohnson11
06/05/2014 at 22:06 |
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The best professors show you how engineering is applied in the real world. Thank him.
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BJohnson11
> f86sabre
06/05/2014 at 22:08 |
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Very great professor, not necessarily in how he teaches but in how he cares about his students. His teachings extend beyond the classroom and beyond engineering. He also just happens to make the class ridiculously hard.
shop-teacher
> BJohnson11
06/05/2014 at 22:34 |
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Very cool! I toured a coal fired plant for a class years ago, and even that was cool. I can only imagine a nuclear plant.
tromoly
> BJohnson11
06/05/2014 at 23:01 |
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Good luck learning your Stirling, Ericsson, Otto, Diesel, and Brayton cycles. And Carnot cycle I guess, but that's just a square.
smallblock87
> BJohnson11
06/06/2014 at 00:34 |
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Cool! As someone who works at a nuke plant on the East coast, Diablo Canyon has always been the one plant I'd love to visit.