Electricite de France: The search for excellence in the nuclear operator training process
- Electricite de France, Cany-Barville (France)
Electricite de France (EdF) operates 51 pressurized water reactor units. The total staff of operators, operating and safety engineers, and supervisors who perform control room tasks today number about 2,000. During the last decade, EdF has had to recruit and train operating staff to handle the equivalent of four to six units reaching criticality every year. To meet this need, the company training department had to design and commission {approximately}10 full-scope simulators and 50 partial-task simulators, in synchrony with the various stages of unit design. Beyond the initial education and training of the newly recruited staff, EdF has adopted a retraining process in which every professional works with the simulator twice a year, five days at a time. The latest advances in the field of simulation are the steam generator tube break operation' simulator, based on an expert system self-training concept, and the SIPA simulator, based on a real-time contraction of the CATHARE thermohydraulic accident code. These training tools contribute to raising quality in human performance and are used for both training purposes and research and development (R and D). In 1987, the training department of the company started a national R and D program to improve operator evaluation as well as to assess the training scope and methods overall.
- OSTI ID:
- 7239423
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-911107-; CODEN: TANSA
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States), Vol. 64; Conference: 1991 Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) session on fundamentals of fusion reactor thermal hydraulics, San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-15 Nov 1991; ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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