My most significant contributions have been in reactor physics startup testing, in teaching reactor behavior and reactor safety, in plant transient studies, in reactor safety analysis, and in developing training resources as listed above. In the course of all of this, I have become a GURU, of sorts, on the subject of reactor behavior. This has occurred not because I am a genius, but rather because I have spent untold hours, over much of my life, working at and thinking about the subject. Even a brick wall sometimes yields to a hard head.
I believe that Reactor Operators everywhere must have a solid understanding of reactor behavior ... of how a reactor works ... and for a number of important reasons, which I will not go into here. This understanding must be in terms of the physical process. If understanding the calculus of the mathematical derivations makes you feel good ... fine ...do it. But, more than likely, that does not ensure that you really understand reactor behavior.
There are many who believe that the subject of reactor behavior is so complex and so difficult that it must forever be forfeited to the mathematically elite. That is just plain baloney. But enough said. In these pages you will find an approach to the subject of reactor behavior that is unique, that you will find in no other resource. No doubt, it will occasionally contradict some of your long held beliefs. But I warned you. As old Josh said, "It ain't so much what we don't know that hurts us, as what we do know that ain't so."
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