Blocking Device for HGA Model Relays

摘要

Duane Arnold Energy Center Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) technicians engaged local high school students to allow them to actively participate in the design and fabrication of a relay block tool that the site was intending to use in support of logic system surveillance testing. The partnership with the high school was part of the site's community engagement and talent strategy to increase awareness of potential engineers and scientists. The collaboration with a local high school was "first of a kind" for the station and allowed a young class of potential future engineers to learn and connect with nuclear power in a very non-traditional way. The students investigated the problem, designed and tested the new tool, and Duane Arnold technicians are currently using it to successfully perform logic system surveillance testing.