User:Caronde

Welcome!
I'm Michael and this is my user page. I go by "Mike" in real life. I'm 71 years old, retired, and live in west-central Arkansas.

I am currently working on Wikipedia pages—new and existing—related to the history of Pope County, Arkansas, and the vicinity.

I also edit pages where I see obvious errors, though, currently, I am not looking for mistakes in Wikipedia to correct.

I use Wikipedia extensively and appreciate the work that other Wikipedeans have and continue to put into it.

Wikipedia is a fantastic and improving resource!

Pages created

 * Dardanelle pontoon bridge—reviewed 05:36, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Pope County Militia War—reviewed 09:54, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Nuclear experience (qualifications for editing nuclear topics)
My professional background before retiring was in nuclear power—eight years in the nuclear navy as a nuclear mechanic, then in commercial nuclear power as a non-licensed operator, reactor operator, and, after leaving the Operations Department, senior reactor operator licensed instructor. I was an instructor at A1W prototype at the Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho for just over 3 years. I held a senior reactor operator license for 21 years, 9 months and worked as an operations instructor for 23 years, 10 months before retiring early in 2007 from a commercial power plant. After retiring, I worked periodically as a contracted operations instructor until December 2017.

All of my commercial nuclear power work was with Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO), Unit 1 including my work as a contracted instructor.

ANO's Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS), designed by Babcock and Wilcox (B&W) is identical in most respects to that used by both units at Three Mile Island. ANO Unit 2 has a different NSSS design. Because of the different NSSS designs, operators at ANO only qualify and license on one unit, there is an Operations training group for each unit and each unit has its own simulator.

I qualified as a Unit 1 simulator instructor in 2005 and maintained my simulator qualification through 2017, renewing it through an abbreviated read and review process each time I came back under contract.

Much of my simulator work was with initial and senior reactor operator classes, primarily during casualty response training, but, later, during initial systems training as well. During my periods or work under contract, I provided a very significant portion of the simulator training for the license class.

I was the license class coordinator for multiple classes between 1992 and the end of 2006. In at least three classes, I took over the role a significant period after the class started.

Topics I had responsibility for:
 * 1) Technical specifications (during the late 1980s)
 * 2) Reactor Protection System
 * 3) Engineered Safeguards Actuation System
 * 4) Emergency Operating Procedures (all)
 * 5) Severe Accident Management Guidelines (SAMG)

I also taught Mitigating Core Damage.

I was part of a team that provided training to all ANO managers and supervisors on the 2002 Davis Besse reactor vessel head wastage using material that I had developed/adapted. I was the only team member present for all sessions.

I served on the B&W Owners Group (BWOG) Training Working Group for several years and on the BWOG Operator Support Committee for a brief period.

I was one of two instructors—one from each unit—assigned to coordinate and supervise a pilot job task analysis project in the late 80s and early 90s.

Outages
My first refueling outage was ANO’s fourth refueling (1R4) in 1981. I participated in that refueling as an upender operator. In later Unit 1 refueling outages, I worked as refueling bridge operator and refueling SRO - by maintaining their licenses, ANO operations instructors could be used as refueling SROs. In 1995, I was assigned to work in radwaste (qualified [1] to carry and use a radiation detector, and [2] operate a fork lift) during a Unit 2 refueling outage. In another Unit 2 outage, I participated as a refueling team helper, a role I also had in several Unit 1 outages after the refueling fuel movement was complete.

Using Wikipedia
I've been using Wikipedia quite a bit recently as a reference in my blog posts. I've noticed that most pages have been edited recently so I've started citing the pages I reference by the edit that exists at the time. Links in the body of the post will be to the current Wikipedia page.

While I've been a registered user of Wikipedia for 17 years, I'm fairly inexperienced as a Wikipedian. Between September 17, 2004, when I registered as a Wikipedia user, and early October 2021, I had only made 89 minor edits over 57 pages.

My first three were minor edits to the page "Three Mile Island accident" the same day I registered as a user. At the time, the "Three Mile Island accident" page was only two years old and was actually not very extensive. Printed out, it's only about 3 full pages in length. The current version is close to seven times the size plus lengthy reference, bibliography, and external links sections. The page has been edited 3,913 times by 2,096 contributors. The two largest edits were on July 2, 2012, when all of the content was replaced by, "you have been trolled lol," and a minute later when user Palosirkka (no longer active) reverted the edit back to the original content.

Three Mile Island
I am researching and editing the Three Mile Island Accident page. References for that editing:
 * Was Arnie Gundersen a Licensed Reactor Operator and Senior VP Nuclear Licensee? April 6, 2013 By Rod Adams at Atomic Insights
 * Three Mile Island Unit 2 Containment Building Pressure Spike—Rogovin, Volume 2, Part 3
 * Excerpts related to the burn

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